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List:       pfsense-support
Subject:    Re: [pfSense Support] Syncing user passwords...pw: no such user `root'
From:       Ole Barnkob Kaas <obk () tet ! dk>
Date:       2007-11-28 20:03:47
Message-ID: 474DC9A3.6050909 () tet ! dk
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Thanks for the hints. However, I will rewrite the CF card and load 
config from backup :-)

I'm more worried about files missing after a power cycle. It looks much 
like the flaw in the 1.0.1 release - just the files missing are different.

/Ole

Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007, at 4:26 AM, Ole Barnkob Kaas wrote:
> 
>> One of my pfSense boxes with 1.2RC2 on soekris net4801 went belly
>> up. Below a dump from console. Any ideas?
> 
> this happened to me once.  i was still able to login to the http
> interface, so was able to recover.  the recovery is painful, but
> possible.
> 
> First, go to the command execute screen.  run "cat /etc/
> master.passwd".  If you get back a nice looking password file you're
> good.  If not, you need to extract one from the pfsense distribution
> (use the source browser on the pfsense Trac site) and use the edit
> file feature to replace the corrupted one.
> 
> Once you have the master.passwd file in place, go back to execute
> command screen and run the following:
> 
> pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd 2>&1
> 
> (The default excecute command doesn't redirect stderr back to you, so
> you must do it manually.)
> 
> If there are errors, try to correct them.  If there is no error
> reported back, then you should be good to go.  Try rebooting and see
> what happens.
> 
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