From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 13 19:45:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from speicher.org (sirius.speicher.org [209.74.10.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FDCA37B416 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (geoff@localhost) by speicher.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3E2vmt49188; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:57:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoff@speicher.org) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:57:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" To: paul beard Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster has locked me out In-Reply-To: <3CB8E522.6090607@mac.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, paul beard wrote: > I was doing a 'build makeworld/installworld' on a 4.5-STABLE box > and didn't pay attention to the mergemaster output, apparently. > Now I have an smmsp user but my UID is gone and root's password > has been changed. > > I'm guessing my only recourse is to boot as single user and reset, > but how to avoid this kind of nastiness? By paying attention to mergemaster next time. Looks like you installed the stock /etc/master.passwd rather than merging with your existing one. Your root password is probably empty now, and there should be a backup of your old master.passwd in /var/backups. Geoff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message