Bug 27210

Summary:	lost all passwords after upgrade from 3.2 to 3.5.1
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	tnygard <tnygard>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description tnygard 2001-05-08 19:30:03 UTC

I have upgraded using a disk to ver3.5.1 from ver3.2. I now can't login
to the machine with any prior user accounts including "root". I use ssh
and unfortunatly turned off everything in inetd.conf so ssh is my only
mode to use to login.

Comment 1 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer

2001-05-08 23:22:09 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Sorry to hear this, but with the level of detail you provided 
the most likely diagnosis is an incorrect system upgrade. 
Sysinstall will preserve important files like the password 
file if you use it correctly to upgrade.