From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 13 20: 5:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5BB37B405 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 20:05:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 458D03198C9; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:05:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:05:38 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: paul beard Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster has locked me out Message-ID: <20020414030538.GE21572@leviathan.inethouston.net> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: paul beard , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3CB8E522.6090607@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CB8E522.6090607@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:10:42PM -0700, paul beard wrote: > I was doing a 'build makeworld/installworld' on a 4.5-STABLE box > and didn't pay attention to the mergemaster output, apparently. > Now I have an smmsp user but my UID is gone and root's password > has been changed. > > I'm guessing my only recourse is to boot as single user and reset, > but how to avoid this kind of nastiness? LAst time I checked the a default master.passwd did not require a password, so you may not need to go into single user. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message