Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:44:32 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9gory_Nou?= <gregorynou@altern.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: a very annoying pb with accounts Message-ID: <415C0DC0.1030807@altern.org>
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Hi everybody, Here is my (weird) problem ... I opened /etc/spwd.db with ee and exited (which was actually a very bad idea, even if I did not modified anything). At this time, everything was still ok. Then, a few minutes later, I tried to su ... Impossible : I get some weird error message telling me "su: who are you ?" Then I tried to log directly from the login shell on tty0 with my account... unknown user. I add a look at /etc/passwd : everything was correct. And when I tried to recreate my account : "user already exists" Then I reboot (the second very bad idea in the same day), and user "gdm" didn't exist anymore. Exactly as if I forgot to make mergemaster after upgrading, but with only one difference : I actually didn't made a upgrade. So now the situation is : I can only access with root account. Does someone know when I did a mistake ? and does someone knows how to fix it ? Should I delete account in /etc/passwd and create them again ? I had this idea, but I didn't want to make another stupid thing today :) Thanks a lot -- Gregory Nou
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