Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 21:27:00 -0400 From: Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System cannot find user IDs Message-ID: <20030504012659.GA11063@opiate.soulwax.net> In-Reply-To: <3EB4639E.5030904@twcny.rr.com> References: <3EB4639E.5030904@twcny.rr.com>
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On 2003-05-03 20:49 +0000, Tom Parquette wrote: > Please CC me on any replies. I'm on my wife's machine writing this and > I can't get to my mornal MUA. > > I've been working on setting up MySQL and I have been having problems > with the MySQL root user. Thinking I might have changed the user to > upper case when I changed it from root (based on a best practices > article from onlamp.com) I added the MySQL admin id in upper case. > > I got a message that the user id had disappeared during the add. (I've > never seen this message before.) I'm assuming it came out of the > adduser command. > > I tried to remove the ID and I started getting messages from various > places complaining about user IDs. Thinking something might be out of > sync, I rebooted. (Appears to be a very bad idea in hind sight.) > > It seems like every daemon complains at boot that it cannot find one > user id or another. I also cannot sign on to the machine. > > I was able to get into the machine in single user mode. I took a recent > backup I made of ad0s1a to another machine, untared it, copied passwd > and master.passwd to a floppy and restored them to the failing machine. > The reboot after restoring passwd and master.passwd gave me the same > results. I can still get on the machine in single user mode. > The FreeBSD Handbook didn't help me much so I looked at Greg L's The > Complete FreeBSD and he talks about some db files (/etc/pwd.db and > /etc/spwd.db) on the bottom of page 163. > > After reading that and some hits searching the questions list I decided > it was time to ask for help. I'm in way over my head this time! > > I'm not sure how to dig myself out of this. TIA. > You need to rebuild the databases. Use pwd_mkdb(8). -- Munish Chopra
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