Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 20:49:34 -0400 From: Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: System cannot find user IDs Message-ID: <3EB4639E.5030904@twcny.rr.com>
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Please CC me on any replies. I'm on my wife's machine writing this and I can't get to my mornal MUA. I've been working on setting up MySQL and I have been having problems with the MySQL root user. Thinking I might have changed the user to upper case when I changed it from root (based on a best practices article from onlamp.com) I added the MySQL admin id in upper case. I got a message that the user id had disappeared during the add. (I've never seen this message before.) I'm assuming it came out of the adduser command. I tried to remove the ID and I started getting messages from various places complaining about user IDs. Thinking something might be out of sync, I rebooted. (Appears to be a very bad idea in hind sight.) It seems like every daemon complains at boot that it cannot find one user id or another. I also cannot sign on to the machine. I was able to get into the machine in single user mode. I took a recent backup I made of ad0s1a to another machine, untared it, copied passwd and master.passwd to a floppy and restored them to the failing machine. The reboot after restoring passwd and master.passwd gave me the same results. I can still get on the machine in single user mode. The FreeBSD Handbook didn't help me much so I looked at Greg L's The Complete FreeBSD and he talks about some db files (/etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db) on the bottom of page 163. After reading that and some hits searching the questions list I decided it was time to ask for help. I'm in way over my head this time! I'm not sure how to dig myself out of this. TIA.home | help
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