> It took me so long to get onto this list that in the end I just gave and > reinstalled over the top of the old one. It all works now, but I would still > be interested in a way around the problem if one exists. The original > problem is described below > > I recently installed FreeBSD 6 RELEASE onto a hard drive and added two other > users, bob and bill. > > Whilst I was doing this I decided to make root and bob members of ALL the > groups in the system. > > I now find that I am unable to log in as either root or bob nor can I su > from bob. > I have tried booting to safe mode but it will still not allow me to do > anything > The messages that I get from the system are: > > login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 > login: initgroups(root,0) : Invalid argument > login: setusercontext() failed - exiting > > I can still log in as bill and this will allow me to see the system files > but bill doesn't have the authority to change anything. > I tried to su to root but bill is not in the wheel group. > If I want to run a graphical environment (and I do) then I need to start > this up as root. > Is there any way to get past this problem or will I need to reinstall?
Boot in single-user mode (type "boot -s" at the boot prompt). Then you will be "root" and can fix up your /etc/group files. -- Matt Emmerton _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
