From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 4:48:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berbee.com (berbee.com [205.173.176.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC74737B419 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 04:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from Debug (berbee.com [205.173.176.16]) by berbee.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id fAQCmK727091 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 06:48:20 -0600 Message-Id: <200111261248.fAQCmK727091@berbee.com> To: questions@freebsd.org From: zietlow@berbee.com Subject: Unknown user "root" Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:48:20 GMT X-Mailer: Endymion MailMan Standard Edition v3.0.22 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 Hi there, this is a weird one. I just did a buildworld and installworld. I ran mergemaster to update my /etc files. I accidently hit the m for merge between my existing /etc/master.passwd and the new /etc/master.passwd. This took out all my user accounts and my root password. I went and copied the master.passwd.bak from /var/backups. I went to boot up the computer and I get these two messages "chown: root: illegal user name" right after the network setup. then when starting inet I get "no such user 'root' service ignored. I ended up powering down the computer (turned ctl-alt-del off) when I booted back up into single user mode the old /etc/master.passwd was there with the old passwd hashes. I went to delete the passwords out of there, same messages. I went to add a new user account it said something about pw and exit code 74. I can't get into my computer. I looked all over /etc Am I over looking something that would fix this? Any suggestions. I can't seem to find anything on google or anyone else having an issue like this. It's 4.4 Stable. TIA Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message