From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 17 12: 1: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lvdi.net (Mta.lvdi.net [216.24.138.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8661D14D1B for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:01:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from notme@lvdi.net) Received: from lvdi.net ([216.24.141.76]) by lvdi.net ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:50:53 2000 PDT Message-ID: <38837726.CA5F2E1C@lvdi.net> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:10:14 -0800 From: Frankie Li X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: /stand/sysinstall bug? References: <3880FC42.6B395ABF@lvdi.net> <20000117134936.A2338@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I didn't boot off the CD-ROM when I install the source... I just booted from the hard drive, then /stand/sysinstall, and install the source only... Frankie Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 03:01:22PM -0800, Frankie Li wrote: > > Hi, > > I was adding FreeBSD source yesterday, and while copying the > > source from the CD to hard drive, I was able to switch (using alt-Fx) > > to another login and login as root without any password. I have yet > > to try reproducing the problem because it was a computer at school, but > > I attempted the login several of times in different login terminals, and > > the same thing resulted. > > > > I have FreeBSD 3.3-Release, burn from the iso from ftp.cdrom.com. > > While doing the installation, did you boot from the installation media? > Because, I think, the /etc/master.passwd of the installation CDROM does > not have any password... and for a good reason, too. > > Ciao. > > -- > Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > > "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message