Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:48:20 GMT From: zietlow@berbee.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Unknown user "root" Message-ID: <200111261248.fAQCmK727091@berbee.com>
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Hi there, this is a weird one. I just did a buildworld and installworld. I ran mergemaster to update my /etc files. I accidently hit the m for merge between my existing /etc/master.passwd and the new /etc/master.passwd. This took out all my user accounts and my root password. I went and copied the master.passwd.bak from /var/backups. I went to boot up the computer and I get these two messages "chown: root: illegal user name" right after the network setup. then when starting inet I get "no such user 'root' service ignored. I ended up powering down the computer (turned ctl-alt-del off) when I booted back up into single user mode the old /etc/master.passwd was there with the old passwd hashes. I went to delete the passwords out of there, same messages. I went to add a new user account it said something about pw and exit code 74. I can't get into my computer. I looked all over /etc Am I over looking something that would fix this? Any suggestions. I can't seem to find anything on google or anyone else having an issue like this. It's 4.4 Stable. TIA Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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