HEADS-UP: installworld on r299292 through r299317 will replace master.passwd, passwd, and group files

From: Glen Barber <gjb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 05:53:41 +0000
Thanks to O. Hartmann promptly reporting this, it was discovered that
'installworld' on revisions r299292-r299317 will silently replace
/etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd, and /etc/group with the defaults.  It
is possible there are other files affected.  One file I can think of
off-hand is /etc/mail/aliases, but in my development system, did not
have local changes to this, so cannot 100% confirm.

Please avoid this range of revisions.

I am very sorry this went unnoticed before this change was committed.

Glen


Received on Tue May 10 2016 - 03:53:43 UTC

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