forgive my "noobism" - i've got 8.0 release minimal install and performed upgrade to 8.1 PreRelease using stable-supfile and ports-supfile - buildworld buildkernel installedkernel and then installed world - only after running mergemaster -p in single mode i got confused and disoriented and must have wipedout or replaced old /etc/master.passwd along with all my accounts and groups...
now on boot i get unknown user root - and i cant "cat /etc/master.passwd" - all i get is blank
however i can view "cat /etc/passwd" and see users root, toor and my old user.
None of them i can change passwd - i get an error "user not found"
my temp root is empty also - no idea how that happened - /var/tmp/temproot/
so i have low permission user with access to system and unable to su - i get an error...
any chances of fixing/repairing my system or i got to wipe all and start from the scratch? i can backup kernel and /etc/rc.conf and what else should i migrate to new system if i'm unable to fix this?
THANK YOU !!!
now on boot i get unknown user root - and i cant "cat /etc/master.passwd" - all i get is blank
however i can view "cat /etc/passwd" and see users root, toor and my old user.
None of them i can change passwd - i get an error "user not found"
my temp root is empty also - no idea how that happened - /var/tmp/temproot/
so i have low permission user with access to system and unable to su - i get an error...
any chances of fixing/repairing my system or i got to wipe all and start from the scratch? i can backup kernel and /etc/rc.conf and what else should i migrate to new system if i'm unable to fix this?
THANK YOU !!!