Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:39:28 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail23@bzerk.org> To: Gregory Felter <nuckingfutsto@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did I do something wrong? Message-ID: <20030806093928.GA15792@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <LAW11-F118dIulddm2p00018f80@hotmail.com> References: <LAW11-F118dIulddm2p00018f80@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:38:16PM -0400, Gregory Felter typed: > I received the information for my dedicated FreeBSD box today from the > hosting company. It's an unmanaged box which was supposed to be running > 4.8 but is running 5.1 because they said 4.8 would not install (Doubtful to > me, sounds like an order mix up) > I did as instructed and changed my login password to the account they set > for me and the SU password. Next I found that they did a minimal install > so through sysinstall I went to post install configurations and loaded in > all distribution sets including ports. When this finished I installed my > editor of choice, pico. In order to use pico after just installing it you > must exit out from root and log in as root again. I typed exit and was > back to my account prompt. For some reason I typed uname -a to see what > info would show up. After looking at the output I typed su and received > back "who are you?" I was surprised at the response so I typed su again, > same response. Now, not knowing what to think, I said well I'll try > logging in again. I'm still trying to log on! I'm locked out of the box. > I know this is rather long but I just want to make sure I didn't do > anything wrong. I'm not new to FreeBSD but this really has me puzzled. > Did I screw up? Did they make a faulty install? Any thoughts? When you "loaded in" all distribution sets you overwrote the passwd files. So your stuck with a default passwd file now (root without a password and no additional users accept the default ones) You might find backups of the old passwd files in /var/backup, but for that you have to get in first from the console. I'd say you screwed up ;-) good luck, Ruben
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