Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:04:46 +1000 From: "Bob @ Brisbane" <jwillson@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: I belong to too many groups Message-ID: <002f01c61a30$799e2ec0$0101a8c0@bob>
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It took me so long to get onto this list that in the end I just gave and reinstalled over the top of the old one. It all works now, but I would still be interested in a way around the problem if one exists. The original problem is described below I recently installed FreeBSD 6 RELEASE onto a hard drive and added two other users, bob and bill. Whilst I was doing this I decided to make root and bob members of ALL the groups in the system. I now find that I am unable to log in as either root or bob nor can I su from bob. I have tried booting to safe mode but it will still not allow me to do anything The messages that I get from the system are: login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 login: initgroups(root,0) : Invalid argument login: setusercontext() failed - exiting I can still log in as bill and this will allow me to see the system files but bill doesn't have the authority to change anything. I tried to su to root but bill is not in the wheel group. If I want to run a graphical environment (and I do) then I need to start this up as root. Is there any way to get past this problem or will I need to reinstall? Bob Willson
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