From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 22:43:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from static.unixfreak.org (static.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792CA37B4C5 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:43:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by static.unixfreak.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BDE311F33; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:43:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: help!!!! i forget passwd root and i have ttys close In-Reply-To: <000601c05519$89062ac0$972e22c8@Lumac> "from Ing. Guillermo R. Martinez Hernandez at Nov 23, 2000 00:49:31 am" To: "Ing. Guillermo R. Martinez Hernandez" Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:43:07 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Dima Dorfman Reply-To: dima@unixfreak.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20001123064307.BDE311F33@static.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > yes I know, but I can not open my system because in my ttys are one line > said > > # > ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on insecure I don't know why you did that, but the basic idea would be to boot from a floppy (I believe the fixit disk should work), mount your root filesystem, edit the password file unsetting the password, rebuilding the password databases, and rebooting. Or, if you don't want to mess with the password databases, just edit /etc/ttys. BTW, when replying, please cc the original recipients; in this case, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. Thanks. > > > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > > > I forget passwd of root, I access my sistem how admin but i can not > > > su login, my ttys is marked insecure all WHAT I DO ?? > > > > RTFM. More specifically, read > > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW. > > > > -- > > Dima Dorfman > > Finger dima@unixfreak.org for my public PGP key. > > > > -- Dima Dorfman Finger dima@unixfreak.org for my public PGP key. "Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet." -- Dave Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message