Re: new NetBSD user dummy questions - change root password problem

[Radek Kujawa <radoslaw.kujawa%c0ff33.net@localhost>]

Supernobby wrote:
> the file /etc/passwd.conf only contains comments (all lines start with '#'). 
>   
That's fine.
> So I guess some default cipher is in use. Do you know what is the default?
>   
AFAIR default localcipher and ypcipher is "old" (original crypt(3)).
> And passwd command will also not work.
>   
I suspect that pw_getpwconf or pw_gensalt system functions are failing 
somehow. Please try running quick test program I just wrote:
http://c0ff33.net/gensalt_test.c

Put this file onto your NetBSD parition, then compile and run:

# cc -lutil -lcrypt -o gensalt_test ./gensalt_test.c
# ./gensalt_test

Try running this program from root account, and from unprivileged 
account, but change your current root password into something bogus (as 
it prints encoded current password if ran from root). Paste outputs from 
this program here. It should look somewhat like this:
http://c0ff33.net/gensalt_test.txt

Regards
Radek