Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:23:23 +0530 From: Pramod Dematagoda <pmd.lotr.gandalf@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0 Message-ID: <1225464803.8828.2.camel@pramod-laptop.fednet> In-Reply-To: <20081031140946.GA33710@icarus.home.lan> References: <1225459744.3714.10.camel@pramod-laptop.fednet> <20081031140946.GA33710@icarus.home.lan>
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On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 07:09 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:59:04PM +0530, Pramod Dematagoda wrote: > > But now I've faced a big problem, I can no longer seem to login to the > > root account where whenever I supply the proper credentials to the login > > screen, I always get thrown back to the login screen. This started > > happening after I installed D-bus and HAL through the FreeBSD ports > > which were built upon Xorg 1.5.1 which I had built myself previously, so > > I am wondering if something I did may have caused the problem. > > Reboot the machine and at the FreeBSD beastie/loader menu, hit "4" to > boot into single-user mode. Once there, do: > > # mount -a > # mount -o rw -u / > # passwd root > > And change the password. "reboot" and you should be good to go. > Hey Jeremy, Thanks for looking into the problem, but unfortunately your solution did not work, I changed the root password to something else, however I still cannot login to root once I boot FreeBSD normally. Regards, Pramod Dematagoda
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