Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 09:27:11 -0700 (PDT) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PASSWD file hosed... Message-ID: <20031004092108.G3248@atlas.home> In-Reply-To: <200310041045.41800.ecrist@tech-con-inc.com> References: <200310041045.41800.ecrist@tech-con-inc.com>
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On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Eric F Crist wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I'm sure you're all getting sick of my being so vocal, but here goes anyway.
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> I was messing around as root in KDE and found the KUser application. I tried
> adding a user (my girlfriend), and when done, nobody could log in. I managed
Mmm... GUIs.
> to boot into single user, which logged me in a toor. I had to mount the file
> systems r/w and finally got my username's password reset, after finding a
> bunch of format errors in the /etc/master.passwd file. My problem is that
> the was no root user listed, just toor and all the others. How can I change
If your machine has been up and running for a while, you will have
backup files in /var/backup. Have a look at /var/backups/master.passwd.bak.
If it looks contains everything you want, copy it to /etc/master.passwd.
Otherwise just edit /etc/master.passwd and add the root entry. The
default one without password looks like:
root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
Then run "pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd" and you're back in business.
> this? Also, I've set the console as insecure, so it's going to ask me for a
> root password.
This is controlled in the file "/etc/ttys".
$.02,
/Mikko
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