Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:00:17 +0000 From: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> To: zietlow@berbee.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unknown user "root" Message-ID: <20011126140017.GB811@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <200111261248.fAQCmK727091@berbee.com> References: <200111261248.fAQCmK727091@berbee.com>
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:48:20PM +0000, zietlow@berbee.com wrote: > 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. pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd to rebuild the databases. -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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