Re: bin/58005: passwd always errors out; cannot change passwords anymore

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

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From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/58005: passwd always errors out; cannot change passwords anymore
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 17:47:46 +0700

     Date:        Sat,  9 Mar 2024 08:00:03 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        Michael Cheponis <michael.cheponis%gmail.com@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20240309080003.5F5E11A923F%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   |  OK, ktrace / kdump is attached.  Hard for me to tell what's happening, tho.
 
 Have you done (or at least attempted) what Michael van Elst asked ?
 
 	 pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
 
 It looks to me from the output you supplied that probably the entry for
 "mac" (you I presume) has different data for the gecos field in the binary
 pwd.db or spwd.db files (which should be the same for this info) from what
 is in /etc/master.passwd - and the "passwd" program which is intended to
 only update the passwd field, but has to update both spwd.db and master.passwd
 doesn't know what to do with this field that it isn't intended to be changing
 isn't the same in both versions of the file (text & hashed binary) - they
 are intended to be the same.
 
 The pwd_mkdb program (which has been suggested that you use a couple of
 times now) will regenerate the binary files from the text file, ensuring
 consistency.