Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:39:24 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@sinbad.net> To: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com>, "Kirk R.Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.5 - >4.6 stable, lost users and passwords Message-ID: <20020627033925.7B9492C4@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20020626223956.A4955-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> References: <20020626223956.A4955-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>
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On Wednesday 26 June 2002 06:42 pm, Jaime wrote:
> 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
>
Copy /var/backups/master.passwd.bak to /etc/master.passwd
Copy /var/backups/group.bak to /etc/group
run pwd_mkdb
You should be back in business.
Beech
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