On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Eric F Crist wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I'm sure you're all getting sick of my being so vocal, but here goes anyway. > > I was messing around as root in KDE and found the KUser application. I tried > adding a user (my girlfriend), and when done, nobody could log in. I managed
Mmm... GUIs. > to boot into single user, which logged me in a toor. I had to mount the file > systems r/w and finally got my username's password reset, after finding a > bunch of format errors in the /etc/master.passwd file. My problem is that > the was no root user listed, just toor and all the others. How can I change If your machine has been up and running for a while, you will have backup files in /var/backup. Have a look at /var/backups/master.passwd.bak. If it looks contains everything you want, copy it to /etc/master.passwd. Otherwise just edit /etc/master.passwd and add the root entry. The default one without password looks like: root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh Then run "pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd" and you're back in business. > this? Also, I've set the console as insecure, so it's going to ask me for a > root password. This is controlled in the file "/etc/ttys". $.02, /Mikko _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"