From owner-freebsd-newbies  Sun Aug  4 20:39:26 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 2D0FD37B400; Sun,  4 Aug 2002 20:39:23 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (h24-71-223-10.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id B2C3443E42; Sun,  4 Aug 2002 20:39:22 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from desmond.lee@shaw.ca)
Received: from pd6mr1so.prod.shaw.ca
 (pd6mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.216]) by l-daemon
 (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002))
 with ESMTP id <0H0C00H7QQ5MT4@l-daemon>; Sun, 04 Aug 2002 21:39:22 -0600 (MDT)
Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca
 (pn2ml6so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.150]) by l-daemon
 (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002))
 with ESMTP id <0H0C00C0KQ50SQ@l-daemon>; Sun, 04 Aug 2002 21:39:00 -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 <0H0C00JCYQ5COO@l-daemon>; Sun, 04 Aug 2002 21:39:22 -0600 (MDT)
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 20:42:36 -0700
From: Desmond Lee <desmond.lee@shaw.ca>
Subject: root unkown?
To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>,
	freebsd-newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Message-id: <CMEMLGKEKMLLFOICILNMGEFOCBAA.desmond.lee@shaw.ca>
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=iso-8859-1
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Importance: Normal
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-priority: Normal
Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-newbies.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-newbies>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-newbies>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org

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".

Can someone please help me :(

Thanks

Desmond



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message