Hi there, I have inherited an openBSD machine with no root account. When I
boot up in single user mode boot -s and do a cat /etc/master.passwd | root
the only thing I get is: daemon:*:1:1::0:0:The devil
himself:/root:/sbin/nologin I can't seem to make changes to the master.passwd
account by
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:18:47PM +0100, Jumping Mouse wrote:
Hi there, I have inherited an openBSD machine with no root account. When I
boot up in single user mode boot -s and do a cat /etc/master.passwd | root
the only thing I get is: daemon:*:1:1::0:0:The devil
Boot your machine in single user mode (boot -s) and
use plain vi and pwd_mkdb soon after that.
There's no need to use vipw when running in boot -s.
On Nov 19, 2007 5:18 PM, Jumping Mouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there, I have inherited an openBSD machine with no root account. When I
boot
--- Jumping Mouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there, I have inherited an openBSD machine with no root account.
When I
boot up in single user mode boot -s and do a cat
/etc/master.passwd | root
the only thing I get is: daemon:*:1:1::0:0:The devil
himself:/root:/sbin/nologin I can't
17:41:01 -0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
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your machine in single user mode (boot -s) and use plain vi and pwd_mkdb soon
after that. There's no need to use vipw when running in boot -s. On Nov
19, 2007 5:18 PM, Jumping Mouse
thanks Juan, faq8.1 shows me how to reset my root passord but i could not
find anything on recreating the root account.
Perhaps I am missing something?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:36:18 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:
lost root account To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; misc@openbsd.org
Jumping Mouse wrote:
Hi there, I have inherited an openBSD machine with no root account. When I
boot up in single user mode boot -s and do a cat /etc/master.passwd | root
I presume there's a grep missing in there. :)
the only thing I get is: daemon:*:1:1::0:0:The devil
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:20:22PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
/etc/ptmp isn't documented in vipw (it probably should be), but it is
covered in passwd(1). It should also be documented in faq8.html, I'll
try to fix that this evening. :)
cvs up!
that is to say, i agree, and just added it.
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:37:19 +0100 Hi Marcus, I thought it was enough
to add the root account through vipw. that this edits the master.passwd file
and would automatically update everything else? how
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