how in the werld did i manage to remove myself from wheel. i just
ran mergemaster -p
is there any documentation for that command that would explain
the complex nonsense ..
well.. maybe i just freeked out. still.. i followed instructions..
granted somebody told me a different procedure (that i posted and
was editited out from below) and it made mergemaster -p act in
a way that i didn't feel prepared for.
right now.. as i explained in the other posting, i didn't really
follow all the instructions on the makewerld page given below..
but i am a bit afraid to just jump in the middle somewhere.. hrm..
i guess starting from the beginning might be right but..
ooo.. i am getting that stomache ache agin.
btw.. i dropped to single user mode, vi'ed /etc/group according
to the instruction and i am now able to jump to root again.
thx a bunch for that!
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Andrei Kolu wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:26, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
okay. i am getting a serious stomach ache. i am looking at this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
and my head is spinning. i don't feel good. i am halfway thru doing
something or other sorta the wrong way. right now i got a prompt.. i
am running xfce4, but i can't jump to superuser. i push the button
and the laptop shuts down when i want it to. the thing is when
i did mergemaster -p i got into big problems i don't understand why.
this guy told me how to do vipw like this:
TeRReF:
In single user mode:
mount -a
/usr/sbin/vipw
then use this inside vipw:
:wq
That should do it...
that helped a lot.. umm.. i felt stupid i guess. i have been using vi for
20 years.. but still.. i really needed this. i feel i need something like
this for mergemaster - p or whatever step i should start from. i am
sorry for being so stupid.
Looks like you overwrote your /etc/group file and removed yourself from wheel
group.
-----------------------------------------------------------
wheel:*:0:root,yourname
........
operator:*:5:root,yourname
-----------------------------------------------------------
So be more careful next time you update your base system.
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