From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 10 00:21:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA12057 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 00:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snitterly.nanoteq.co.za (snitterly.nanoteq.co.za [163.195.221.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA12049 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 00:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za (pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za [163.195.219.103]) by snitterly.nanoteq.co.za (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id JAA18564; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:22:35 GMT Received: by pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za with Microsoft Mail id <01BC8D12.301791B0@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za>; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:18:11 -0000 Message-ID: <01BC8D12.301791B0@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za> From: "P. van Leeuwen" To: "'Jivglailh@aol.com'" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: no root Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:18:09 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Can you boot up in single-user mode? (By spesifying -s at the boot prompt) You might be able to fix the problem by doing that. I don't know what the impact of your problem is on single-user mode. If it works, mount your disks and run vipw. Hope that helps Pierre P. van Leeuwen pvl@nanoteq.com http://www.nanoteq.co.za -----Original Message----- From: Jivglailh@aol.com [SMTP:Jivglailh@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 1997 2:43 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: no root We have a FreeBSD system insalled and some how user root got deleted, and we can't get logged on to fix the problem. If you have any suggestions they would be appreciated, if you have any questions about what the problem is just e-mail me. Thank You