From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 11:21:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sparticus.bright.net (sparticus.bright.net [205.212.123.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C494114C28 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:21:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from slay3241@bright.net) Received: from bright.net (akro-max1-cs-5.dial.bright.net [209.143.19.7]) by sparticus.bright.net (8.9.3/8.9.3 ComNet Build) with ESMTP id OAA28542 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:21:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <380A136F.9787AA37@bright.net> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:20:31 -0400 From: bill slaybaugh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD List Subject: lost my /etc/spwd.db Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After an extended round of disk grinding, trying to swap some free-space my netscape session bombed out. I am pretty new to FreeBSD and I didn't know what to make of a repeated message: "no such file or directory - /etc/spwd.db" I smelled trouble when I tried to su to root in xterm and got "who are you?" After rebooting the machine and failing to get in as root or anyone I began to realize I had lost my password file. NOW WHAT? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message