From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 19:42:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (malkav.snowmoon.com [209.23.60.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A5EAC37B405 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5011 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2002 02:42:09 -0000 Received: from localhost.snowmoon.com (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.snowmoon.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2002 02:42:09 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:42:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime To: "Kirk R.Wythers" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.5 - >4.6 stable, lost users and passwords In-Reply-To: <02062616543500.01286@truffula.localdomain> Message-ID: <20020626223956.A4955-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Kirk R.Wythers wrote: > I just did the whole cvsup, make world, mergemaster thing... So far as I can > tell, all of my user files in ~/ are there (single user workstation), but I > my username is not recognized, and I can't su to root. If I login as root, no > password is required. I'm not at the machine in question right now, but as I > am writing this it seems as if the password file is gone (I may have messed > up with mergemaster). Sounds like your /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd files were replaced with the "new install" defaults. Either (a) repalce them with your originals from some backups and read /usr/src/UPDATING very closely for entries replating to the sendmail changes or just login as root, use passwd to set a new root password, add your own account to /etc/group in the line that begins with "wheel", use adduser to re-create your account, etc. Good luck, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message