Re: I belong to too many groups
Bob @ Brisbane wrote: 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? Bob Willson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You could always bootup the 'fixit' image from the install cd, then mount your root partition, and vi /etc/group. That's what I'd do given your case; if you are unsure of how to mount the partition, bootup your machine, login as 'bill', type 'mount' and look at which partition is mounted to '/'. Then bootup the fixit image, and 'mount /dev/_your_root_slice /mnt', then simply 'vi /mnt/etc/group'. Should be fairly straight forward, email back to the list if you still have problems with it. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I belong to too many groups
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? Bob Willson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I belong to too many groups
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]
