From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 4 12:46:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC32837B405 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:46:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (timothyk@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fA4KnJ224416 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 15:49:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 15:49:19 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Kellers To: Subject: root is now 0 Message-ID: <20011104154437.I24330-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message