Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 20:34:30 -0500 From: Scott Corey <scott@bsdprophet.org> To: Desmond Lee <desmond.lee@shaw.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can no longer log into the machine :( Message-ID: <200208042034.31096.scott@bsdprophet.org> In-Reply-To: <CMEMLGKEKMLLFOICILNMGEFCCBAA.desmond.lee@shaw.ca> References: <CMEMLGKEKMLLFOICILNMGEFCCBAA.desmond.lee@shaw.ca>
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Yup, your totally lost. What you need to do is boot you machine into sing=
le=20
user mode. And then when you get the prompt change your password for root=
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(You changed it when you ran mergemaster and it asked you about the=20
master.passwd file) And before you go any further, I would recommend that=
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this time you read what it says to do in UPDATING.=20
20020404:
Due to the import of sendmail 8.12.2 (see 20020325 entry), a new
user and group are required in order for sendmail to run as a
set-group-ID binary. A 'make installworld' will use the new user
and group to set the owner and group of /var/spool/clientmqueue
and will fail if the new user and group do not exist. The 'smmsp=
'
user and group must be merged from src/etc/group and
src/etc/master.passwd before using 'make installworld'.
'mergemaster -p' will do this. You may need to install
mergemaster before this will work if you are updating from a
very old version of stable. This can be done with:
cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster; make all install [clean]
20020325:
sendmail 8.12.2 has been imported. The sendmail binary is no
longer a set-user-ID root binary and the infrastructure to suppor=
t
command line mail submission has changed. Be sure to run
mergemaster (especially for updating /etc/rc, /etc/defaults/rc.co=
nf,
and /etc/mail) and read /etc/mail/README for more details.
There was a very big debate on freebsd-questions on this very subject.
And posting you questions in newbies will NOT get an answer everytime. An=
d=20
posting more than once will just piss people off.
On Sunday 04 August 2002 07:50 pm, Desmond Lee wrote:
> Hi there
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> I had free bsd 4.4 and was trying to update to 4.6. So, i'm following t=
he
> instructions of my freebsd book, and got past the 'make kernel
> KERNCONF=3DMYKERN' command. Then rebooted the machine and then typed 'c=
d
> /usr/src'. Then i tried to execute 'make installworld', but it couldn't
> execute and said something was wrong with smmsp and to look in the UPDA=
TING
> file.
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> So i looked into the UPDATING file and looked for smmsp. It gave some
> suggestions indicating that i have to execute 'megemaster -p'. So that'=
s
> what i did and i didn't really understand what was going on, but i trie=
d to
> merge in differences from different files.
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> I then rebooted, and now i can't log into my machine under root or any =
other
> user.
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> Can someone please help. I'm totally lost here.
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> Thanks
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> desmond
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