From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 6: 2:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13CAF37B419 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 06:02:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card3-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 168ML3-00039z-00; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:02:25 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 168MIz-0000iS-00; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:00:17 +0000 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:00:17 +0000 From: setantae To: zietlow@berbee.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unknown user "root" Message-ID: <20011126140017.GB811@rhadamanth> References: <200111261248.fAQCmK727091@berbee.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200111261248.fAQCmK727091@berbee.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i 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 On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:48:20PM +0000, zietlow@berbee.com wrote: > 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. pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd to rebuild the databases. -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message