Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:57:39 +0100 From: Jona Joachim <jona.joachim@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: user accounts messed up Message-ID: <b62d1f000601211057p552c2bc3o@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi! I did something quite stupid... I installed postgresql from ports and created an unprivileged user account for it. I wanted to install the database in /var/pgsql and wanted to chown the folder to the unprivileged user. To do this, I entered the following as root: chown -R /var/pgsql/ As this command took more than two seconds I presumed chown had followed .. and so I hit Ctrl-C. After having done this I tried to switch to the unprivileged user account with su and it said something like "setuid not running". After having tried to recover from this situation without success I decided to reboot the system. Now I can't login to any user account anymore, not even root. I am told the password is not correct. I tried to boot in single user mode, mount /usr and change the root password with passwd but I am denied permission to change master.passwd. Is it possible that the user database is corrupt? I would be glad if anyone was able to help me. Greetings, Jona
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