Problem with freebsd-update corrupting /etc/passwd

[Paul Schmehl]

--On August 20, 2015 at 9:56:46 PM -0500 Paul Schmehl 
<pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:

> --On August 20, 2015 at 8:39:17 PM -0600 Paul Smith
> <paul.j.smith0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> The top three lines of the file (that I renamed .bak because it was
>>> corrupted) are:
>>>
>>> # cat /etc/passwd.bak
>>> # $FreeBSD: releng/10.2/etc/master.passwd 256366 2013-10-12 06:08:18Z
>>> # rpaulo
>>> $
>>> #
>>> root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
>>>
>>> # pwd_mkdb -C /etc/passwd.bak
>>> pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry
>>> pwd_mkdb: at line #3
>>> pwd_mkdb: /etc/passwd.bak: Inappropriate file type or format
>>>
>>
>> I thought you ran pwd_mkdb on /etc/master.password and not /etc/password.
>>
>>> From the man page for pwd_mkdb:
>>
>> Regenerate the password database after manually editing or replacing
>> the password file:
>> /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
>>
>
> Doing that corrupts the file in exactly the same way that they were
> corrupted.
>
># pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
> [root at mail /var/spool/spam]# ls -lsa /etc/passwd
> 4 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2615 Aug 21 02:50 /etc/passwd
> [root at mail /var/spool/spam]# ls -lsa /etc/master.passwd
> 4 -rw-------  1 root  wheel  3105 Aug 20 03:33 /etc/master.passwd
> [root at mail /var/spool/spam]# pwd_mkdb -C /etc/passwd
> pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry
> pwd_mkdb: at line #3
> pwd_mkdb: /etc/passwd: Inappropriate file type or format
>
> -p creates the file in Version 7 format, which is incorrect for
> 10.2-RELEASE.
>

After rereading the man page, apparently the /etc/passwd file is *supposed* 
to be in Version 7 format.

I'll lave it to the experts.  Apparently I've made much ado about nothing.

> Paul Schmehl, Retired
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Paul Schmehl, Retired
As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
are my own and not those of my employer.
*******************************************
"It is as useless to argue with those who have
renounced the use of reason as to administer
medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson
"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very
intelligent person could believe in them." George Orwell