Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:42:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> To: "Kirk R.Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.5 - >4.6 stable, lost users and passwords Message-ID: <20020626223956.A4955-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> In-Reply-To: <02062616543500.01286@truffula.localdomain>
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Kirk R.Wythers wrote: > I just did the whole cvsup, make world, mergemaster thing... So far as I can > tell, all of my user files in ~/ are there (single user workstation), but I > my username is not recognized, and I can't su to root. If I login as root, no > password is required. I'm not at the machine in question right now, but as I > am writing this it seems as if the password file is gone (I may have messed > up with mergemaster). Sounds like your /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd files were replaced with the "new install" defaults. Either (a) repalce them with your originals from some backups and read /usr/src/UPDATING very closely for entries replating to the sendmail changes or just login as root, use passwd to set a new root password, add your own account to /etc/group in the line that begins with "wheel", use adduser to re-create your account, etc. Good luck, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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