From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 18:47:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4232737B401 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20103.mail.yahoo.com (web20103.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E89FE43E42 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:47:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020913014738.92130.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.156] by web20103.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:47:38 PDT Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:47:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: Re: upgrading and updating .... extremely complicated for me. To: mij@soupnazi.org Cc: Jonathan Chen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020913000435.GB6393@soupnazi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Jim Mock wrote: > This would only happen if you spammed over your password file during > mergemaster instead of examining it and merging the changes. Time to > restore it from your backup. You do have one, don't you? > > Btw, you could also read the FAQ. It tells you how to reset the root > password if you forget or lose it. i did exactly what was given in the handbook section... i don't recall if there's anyting about backing up... if there is, then i did. sorry, but i have a horrible short term memory. either way, it shouldn't be to big od a deal... well hopefully anyways... i had a handful of user accounts and i didn't do much with the system other than complie a few sources. as for the FAQ... found the information. thanks. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message