Re: user problems when upgrading to v15

On 31/08/2023 03:31, brian whalen wrote:

> Understood. I guess I was expecting the update process of etcupdate -p 
> && make installworld && etcupdate -B to not whack existing users or 
> delete an existing root user's password. I accepted the remote and 
> then recreated users and reset passwords and am retrying this.
>
> BW
>
Thanks.

For clarity: did the routine /not/ prompt you to edit the file (in 
which, you would have seen conflict markers etc.)?

> On 8/30/2023 7:21 PM, Graham Perrin wrote:
>> On 31/08/2023 03:00, brian whalen wrote:
>>> … I ran etcupdate resolve accepting the remote option and saw 2 issues.
>>>
>>> The root user's password was deleted.
>>>
>>> The non root user no longer existed.
>> Logically, remote does not include things such as your root user's 
>> password.