From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 02:39:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D895E37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 02:39:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F01943F75 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 02:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mail23@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h769dSrQ015905; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:39:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bulk@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h769dS9X015904; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:39:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:39:28 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Gregory Felter Message-ID: <20030806093928.GA15792@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Gregory Felter , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did I do something wrong? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 09:39:01 -0000 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