From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 4 21:27:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E781437B400 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 21:27:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd5mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (h24-71-223-10.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6654D43E4A for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 21:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from desmond.lee@shaw.ca) Received: from pd5mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.233]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0C00FGBSE1T6@l-daemon> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2002 22:27:37 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml4so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.148]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0C006KVSE1GK@l-daemon> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2002 22:27:37 -0600 (MDT) Received: from wetworks (h24-77-108-85.vc.shawcable.net [24.77.108.85]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with SMTP id <0H0C00CFVSD9ZY@l-daemon> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2002 22:27:37 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 21:30:33 -0700 From: Desmond Lee Subject: RE: root unkown? In-reply-to: <20020805041023.GM83171@wantadilla.lemis.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sweet... it worked.... now i can log in as root thanks greg :) -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Greg 'groggy' Lehey Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 9:10 PM To: Desmond Lee Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: root unkown? On Sunday, 4 August 2002 at 21:06:14 -0700, Desmond Lee wrote: > On Sunday, August 04, 2002 8:47 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 4 August 2002 at 20:42:36 -0700, Desmond Lee wrote: >>> Hi there >>> >>> I can't log into my machine because i hosed the /etc/group and the >>> /etc/master.passwd files while doing an upgrade. >>> >>> Anywho, i'm looking at the freebsd faq , 10.14. I have forgotten the root >>> password! What do I do?, to try and change the root password. But when i >> do >>> 'passwd root' i get a message like 'passwd: Unkown user root". >> >> Right, that's what you do when you've lost the password. If you've >> lost the user, you'll have to restore it. You should be able to do it >> like this: >> >> 1. Boot into single user mode. >> 2. Mount the live file system CD-ROM. >> 3. Copy the files /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd to their correct >> place. >> 4. Run: >> >> # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd >> >> This will give you a root user with no password. You should obviously >> fix that as soon as possible. If you don't have the live file system, >> they're on the installation ISO as well, but that's more work. > > What's the live file system? The second CD-ROM of the four CD set. > If i don't have it, can you tell me how i can get my hands on it? Order the set :-) Or find a workaround. > The old /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd are in the /var/backups/ > but when i copied them over to /etc/ and rebooted nothing happened? > Should i then execute pwd_mkdb, or am i just talking nonsense? No, that's probably what you're missing. Run the last step, that should be enough. > Um... i have a freebsd 4.4 installation cd that came with the book i > bought, but is that of any use? No, use the copy you have. It probably has the correct users and passwords in it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message