Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:13:11 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org> Subject: Re: password failure- after mergmaster Message-ID: <200707091613.12181.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702CFD@www.fcimail.org> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702CFD@www.fcimail.org>
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On Monday 09 July 2007 04:06:01 pm Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > OOOPSS- > > I got mergemaster to run- but now that the system restarted the root > password and my password are invalid- > > I can ONLY start in single user mode- > > I still do have level 0 dump of 5.4 on my network is this my only option > ? It's always wise to back up /etc before running mergemaster to cover just t= his=20 type of mistake. In this case I'm guessing you replaced=20 your /etc/master.passwd with the default one. =46rom single-user mode, set the root password using the "passwd" utility. You will probably need to re-add your user account and any others that aren= 't=20 part of the system default. I would grab /etc/master.passwd from your backu= p=20 and do a line-by-line comparison with the file currently installed on your= =20 system. When re-adding users, be sure to use the same UID's and GID's so th= at=20 file permissions will be correct. See man pw for details. Alternatively, you could replace /etc/master.passwd with the copy from your= =20 backup and run mergemaster again. This time pay attention and actually merg= e=20 the file. JN
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