From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 20:25:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 961B916A421 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:25:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from ra.egypt.nl (cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl [213.51.103.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D0113C489 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:25:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from ra.egypt.nl (localhost.egypt.nl [127.0.0.1]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A903989E for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:25:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix, from userid 501) id 0AEB63989C; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:25:15 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on ra.egypt.nl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, AWL autolearn=ham version=3.2.1 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DE739898 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:25:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <469299A6.4090006@boosten.org> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:25:10 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702CFD@www.fcimail.org> <20070709201750.GA66218@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <20070709201750.GA66218@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000755-0, 07/09/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: password failure- after mergmaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:25:17 -0000 David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:06:01PM -0400, 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- > > You let mergemaster clobber the password file. > > So in single user, "mount -a", then use vipw to recreate your accounts > in the password database. On exit from vipw use passwd to set the > passwords. > Having read this I must admit that it's a complete mystery to me why mergemaster would touch your password file at all... /me puzzled... Peter -- http://www.boosten.org