user account disappeared

[Gareth de Vaux]

On Sun 2021-02-28 (08:25), J. Hellenthal wrote:
> If it wasn???t ports then it was buildworld where it asks you ... would you like to run this now ? And you probably selected no instead of yes. Or some combination of that and mergemaster not being run.

Sure, though I'm always careful with buildworld and mergemaster, but in the timeline I logged
in successfully a few times after the buildworld before the user disappeared. Seems more likely
it was related to running "passwd otheruser".