Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 22:31:25 -0500 From: Ben Hockenhull <benh@jpj.net> To: davidj@zip.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root account has been renamed? Message-ID: <v03102801b21ba683b0d5@[10.0.21.100]> In-Reply-To: <35F5EBA4.C760A86F@zip.com.au>
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>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?) Chances are that you used pico to edit passwd. The Pine/Pico 4.0 distribution has a known bug in it that leaves stray capital U's in edited files. Upgrading to 4.02 ought to take care of that. >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.) Use vipw. It takes care of the file locking, file format checking and pwd_mkdb needed to keep the password hash files in sync. Ben -- Ben Hockenhull benh@jpj.net "Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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