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Date:      Sun, 4 Nov 2001 15:49:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com>
To:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   root is now 0
Message-ID:  <20011104154437.I24330-100000@serv1.wallnet.com>

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After hacking around with NIS on one of our (thank god) development
servers, I've managed to somehow expunge root's name from something
important.  When I, su'd to root, create a file, it now has the ownership
of 0 and group wheel.  I've looked in /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd
and the entries look fine, and I've tuned NIS back off, rebooted and taken
all of the alterations I made to the passwd and group files back out, but
I still have a root with an "name" of 0.

This isn't a disaster because it is a development machine, but I need to
know how I did what I did and how to undo it.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Tim Kellers
CPE
New Jersey Institute of Technology


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