Pacnew warning request

[nikgnomic]

@Nexan

The pacnew checker overwrites the passwd file as I click accidentally to get the whole new file. (Thanks to a backup, it was not a massive problem.)

Wheel user password “reset itself”, now twice

To fix it there is usually a backup /etc/passwd~. Verify your username is at the end of the file and - if it is - use cp to replace the existing file.

sudo cp /etc/passwd~ /etc/passwd

for the second time my primary wheel user’s password has been “mysteriously reset”

No - passwords are never reset by an update.

So what gives?

Confused by the presence of a file named passwd.pacnew?

why would this happen?

It would happen if you - without giving thought to the process - replace a configuration with a .pacnew file

Never automate .pacnew files - it may wreck your system completely.