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From: Kirk R.Wythers <kwythers@umn.edu>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: 4.5 - >4.6 stable, lost users and passwords
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:54:35 -0500
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I just did the whole cvsup, make world, mergemaster thing... So far as I =
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tell, all of my user files in ~/ are there (single user workstation), but=
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my username is not recognized, and I can't su to root. If I login as root=
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password is required. I'm not at the machine in question right now, but a=
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am writing this it seems as if the password file is gone (I may have mess=
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up with mergemaster).=20

Any ideas as to recovery?

Thanks a ton,

Kirk

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