From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 20:37:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10484 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 20:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10465 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 20:37:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA09927; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 15:32:11 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 15:32:11 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: David James cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root account has been renamed? In-Reply-To: <35F5EBA4.C760A86F@zip.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, David James wrote: > 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.) Sounds like the `pico' bug to me. If you're using that as your EDITOR, upgrade it (vi rulz!). Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message