From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 19:42:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04079 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.zip.com.au (mail.zip.com.au [203.12.97.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04071 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:42:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davidj@zip.com.au) Received: from zip.com.au (kyle109.zip.com.au [61.8.17.237]) by mail.zip.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA07856 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 12:42:12 +1000 Message-ID: <35F5EBA4.C760A86F@zip.com.au> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 12:44:52 +1000 From: David James Reply-To: davidj@zip.com.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: root account has been renamed? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, The root account on my machine (running 2.2.7) seems to have been renamed to Uroot. I can login as Uroot using the root password and I am uid 0. Both /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd have changed the first line from root to Uroot. /etc/group has remained the same, so Uroot is not a member of any groups apart from wheel. I have two questions about this: 1. What caused root to be renamed? (Could I have done something really stupid to cause this?) 2. How can I get it back to how it was? (I tried editing /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd and deleting the "U" but it didn't work - I kept backups of the files before I edited.) I'm not sure if you may need any further information to help; please tell me if I have left something out. Many thanks, David James davidj@zip.com.au (Please reply direct to me, as I am not on the list) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message