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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:11:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Eric D. Fehr" <fehr@idirect.com>
To: David James <davidj@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: root account has been renamed?
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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)
> 
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