I've tried for hours to change the password for a wheel, operator user in a new install.
Persistent errors (sysinstall also fails) such as:
With the five or so pw and related commands, guides, manpages, etc., rather terse and persistent errors continually occur even with known-working files replacing most of the passwd (etc) files in /etc. I've read and re-read and re-tried most every command commonly mentioned, but as seen above, never with a real result. Perhaps part of a
Edit: It turns out the install skipped installing files in /etc/periodic and /etc/defaults. I'm testing whether completing those two fixes this issue here.
Persistent errors (sysinstall also fails) such as:
Code:
# pw useradd toor9
toor9 already exists
# chpass toor9
unknown user toor9
With the five or so pw and related commands, guides, manpages, etc., rather terse and persistent errors continually occur even with known-working files replacing most of the passwd (etc) files in /etc. I've read and re-read and re-tried most every command commonly mentioned, but as seen above, never with a real result. Perhaps part of a
installkernel; installworld
to a /mnt missed an additional step, not copying some file? Or some specific editing could create-from-scratch all of the wheel group logins and passwords, without removing those in use by other programs.Edit: It turns out the install skipped installing files in /etc/periodic and /etc/defaults. I'm testing whether completing those two fixes this issue here.