From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 13 19:40:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD2B37B405 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA03465; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:40:06 -0700 Message-ID: <3CB8EC05.6090502@owt.com> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:40:05 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paul beard Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster has locked me out References: <3CB8E522.6090607@mac.com> 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 paul beard wrote: > 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? I would try nothing and if that doesn't work, reboot to single user mode. You have to pay really close attention when mergemaster wants to upgrade /etc/passwd and /etc/group. If you don't, you end up locked out because all of your user accounts will disappear. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message