Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:04:08 +1000 From: Michael Ross <satare@optusnet.com.au> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: mergemaster has locked me out Message-ID: <200204150304.g3F348t25683@mail024.syd.optusnet.com.au>
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> Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > > I'm guessing my only recourse is to boot as single user and reset, > > but how to avoid this kind of nastiness? > > > I would try nothing and if that doesn't work, reboot to single user > mode. apologies for this being a "me too" email, but I had the similar problem with my first buildworld, I luckily figured out what happened before I closed my last root shell, so was able to salvage the problem easily. Is there an easy way to just get mergemaster to update the new users in your /etc/passwd files while leaving your existing ones alone? thanks Michael Ross satare@optusnet.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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