Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 21:13:10 -0700 From: Desmond Lee <desmond.lee@shaw.ca> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: root unkown? Message-ID: <CMEMLGKEKMLLFOICILNMEEFPCBAA.desmond.lee@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020805034634.GL83171@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Hi greg
What's the live file system? If i don't have it, can you tell me how i can
get my hands on it?
The old /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd are in the /var/backups/ but when
i copied them over to /etc/ and rebooted nothing happened? Should i then
execute pwd_mkdb, or am i just talking nonsense?
Um... i have a freebsd 4.4 installation cd that came with the book i bought,
but is that of any use?
thanks
Desmond
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [mailto:grog@freebsd.org]
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 8:47 PM
To: Desmond Lee
Cc: freebsd-questions
Subject: Re: root unkown?
[removing -newbies; they're not a technical list]
On Sunday, 4 August 2002 at 20:42:36 -0700, Desmond Lee wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I can't log into my machine because i hosed the /etc/group and the
> /etc/master.passwd files while doing an upgrade.
>
> Anywho, i'm looking at the freebsd faq , 10.14. I have forgotten the root
> password! What do I do?, to try and change the root password. But when i
do
> 'passwd root' i get a message like 'passwd: Unkown user root".
Right, that's what you do when you've lost the password. If you've
lost the user, you'll have to restore it. You should be able to do it
like this:
1. Boot into single user mode.
2. Mount the live file system CD-ROM.
3. Copy the files /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd to their correct
place.
4. Run:
# pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
This will give you a root user with no password. You should obviously
fix that as soon as possible. If you don't have the live file system,
they're on the installation ISO as well, but that's more work.
Greg
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