Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:27:52 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password failure- after mergmaster Message-ID: <4692A858.2090106@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070709201750.GA66218@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702CFD@www.fcimail.org> <20070709201750.GA66218@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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David Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:06:01PM -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
>> OOOPSS-
>>
>> I got mergemaster to run- but now that the system restarted the root password
>> and my password are invalid-
>>
>> I can ONLY start in single user mode-
>
> You let mergemaster clobber the password file.
>
> So in single user, "mount -a", then use vipw to recreate your accounts
> in the password database. On exit from vipw use passwd to set the
> passwords.
>
Note that there will be a backup copy of the master.passwd file in
/var/backups/master.passwd.bak -- the will be possibly more than one
backup copy in that directory. These are created by the nightly
periodic script:
/etc/periodic/daily/200.backup-passwd
which is enabled by default. As these run overnight the backed-up
copy should pre-date your adventures with mergemaster. Verify that
the contents are sensible, then copy it back to /etc/master.passwd
and run pwd_mkdb(8) to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/pwd.db from it.
Cheers,
Matthew
- --
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
Flat 3
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate
Kent, CT11 9PW
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