Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 05:35:20 -0800 From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> To: Snob Art Genre <brosenga@calvin.pitzer.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc lock out Message-ID: <3289CE98.22F0@alaska.net> References: <3289B3FC.68E7@alaska.net> <3287FC42.742A@calvin.pitzer.edu>
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Snob Art Genre wrote: > > hmmm wrote: > > > > i guess i did something REAL stupid! > > i changed the following files in /etc: > > > > group > > master.passwd > > passwd > > pwd.db > > spwd.db > > > > i think that was all of them. i did a GREP in /etc on > > roots real name (and added my last name to all occurences) > > and did the same to my login/user name. > > > > now i'm locked out of my BSD partitions! > > > > i get messages before the login prompt for each TCP service > > saying they will not be started because "root" doesn't exist. > > i guess that Kerberos stuff uses your REAL name when it > > encrypts or what ??? > > > > is there a fix? or have i really screwed myself? !!! > > i try to login as root - but my password doesn't work anymore ... > > Do you have a boot disk? Root password can be changed from sysinstall. yeah - i already tried that. but the functions that do that stuff (adduser/root passwd) don't do anything on the 2.1.5 boot disk ... any other ideas?
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