From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 13 19:10:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF5B37B416 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:10:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020414021051.DIOJ1143.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@mac.com> for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 02:10:51 +0000 Message-ID: <3CB8E522.6090607@mac.com> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:10:42 -0700 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020413 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mergemaster has locked me out Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was doing a 'build makeworld/installworld' on a 4.5-STABLE box and didn't pay attention to the mergemaster output, apparently. Now I have an smmsp user but my UID is gone and root's password has been changed. I'm guessing my only recourse is to boot as single user and reset, but how to avoid this kind of nastiness? -- Paul Beard 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 206 529 8400 George Orwell was an optimist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message