From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 6 4:53:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tux.babel.fr (babeliens.babel.fr [212.208.27.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4506637B405 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 04:53:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from flevesque@babel.fr) Received: from babel.fr (IDENT:flevesqu@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tux.babel.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03892 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:54:46 +0200 Message-ID: <3B1E0BF6.E0E8225D@babel.fr> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 12:54:46 +0200 From: Franck LEVESQUE Organization: [BaBeL@STaL] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [fr] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-6.1.1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: no more 'root' account on my machine... References: <20010606113938.1B1C037B405@hub.freebsd.org> <3B1E0AF6.A05BA5FD@babel.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > > First of all, sorry for my bad english skills. > > As the newbie I am on FreeBSD (4.3), I did a very stupid thing while > using vipw : I deleted the root account. > > I tryed to correct my problem using the "fix it" floppy, but changing > the /etc/passwd file is not enough. > Really I am sorry to bother you with that, but I don't know that much > about the master.passwd and the way FreeBSD does to authentify users. > > Anybody has an idea about the way I shall follow to resolve my problem? > Thank you indeed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message