From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 11:23:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA08155 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:23:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from zarbi.uscpc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.2.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA08118 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:23:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gcabrale@localhost) by zarbi.uscpc.unal.edu.co (8.8.2/8.8.2) id OAA03261; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:17:08 GMT Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:17:07 +0000 () From: "G. Cabrales" To: Snob Art Genre cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc lock out In-Reply-To: <3289CE98.22F0@alaska.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, hmmm wrote: > Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > > hmmm wrote: > > > > > > i guess i did something REAL stupid! > > > i changed the following files in /etc: > > > > > > group > > > master.passwd > > > passwd > > > pwd.db > > > spwd.db > > > > > > i think that was all of them. i did a GREP in /etc on > > > roots real name (and added my last name to all occurences) > > > and did the same to my login/user name. > > > > > > now i'm locked out of my BSD partitions! > > > > > > i get messages before the login prompt for each TCP service > > > saying they will not be started because "root" doesn't exist. > > > i guess that Kerberos stuff uses your REAL name when it > > > encrypts or what ??? > > > > > > is there a fix? or have i really screwed myself? !!! > > > i try to login as root - but my password doesn't work anymore ... > > > > Do you have a boot disk? Root password can be changed from sysinstall. > > yeah - i already tried that. > > but the functions that do that stuff (adduser/root passwd) > don't do anything on the 2.1.5 boot disk ... > any other ideas? > Boot: -s single mode on Boot:, this function, when I install DES crypt library; of course all my passwds DIE!! G. Cabrales