Re: Keyboard lockup with NetBSD5

[John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>]

Hi,

> I have a DLink PCMCIA ethernet card, but while installing and 
> configuring sshd I stumbled on another "feature" of NetBSD 4.0.1, the 
> "can not change password" thing (Message is something like "Couldn't 
> generate salt

> Unable to change auth token: error in service module").

> Now I have to edit something in /etc/passwd.conf and hope that I can 
> change my password and get access to the amiga via ssh from my Mac. At 
> least ping works...

You can use any other NetBSD machine to make a password hash to use 
temporarily. Here's one:

hl4admxMXNMUM

The password for this hash is 1234. Not very secure, but useful for 
something quick like this. If you're having a problem creating a spwd.db, 
you can do the same on another NetBSD machine, or I can generate one for 
you with a temp account and a simple password.

John