Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:11:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric D. Fehr" <fehr@idirect.com> To: David James <davidj@zip.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root account has been renamed? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980909091046.29261A-100000@proteus.idirect.com> In-Reply-To: <35F5EBA4.C760A86F@zip.com.au>
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I suspect you installed the Pine 4.01 package from FreeBSD 2.2.7 - the Pico editor that comes with it has an apparent problem that causes it to insert the occasional U as the first character in the file. Probably ran vipw with pico as your default editor. Eric On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, David James wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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