Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:26:07 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net> To: 'James A Wilde' <james.wilde@tbv.se>, Send to questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Duff passwords after upgrade Message-ID: <FB7CAC781DB6D311BEE800805FE6FADA2F4C50@camexch4.cam.uk.internal>
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It's possible that the upgrade did something funny with your keyboard maps. (I've never gone through the upgrade process, so don't know how likely this is...) This can play merry hell with your brain if you use non-alpha-numeric characters, which tend to be the most unpredictable from one keyboard map to another. Then again, it may have something completely other :o) Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: James A Wilde [mailto:james.wilde@tbv.se] > Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:21 PM > To: Send to questions > Subject: Duff passwords after upgrade > > > Short summary of a long message in newbies. > > After an upgrade from 2.2.8 to 4.1 by ftp today I couldn't > log on. Got > login incorrect for root and my own account. I fixed it by > booting with -s > and fixing root's password, but does anyone know why this > happened? Is it > standard or did I just get lucky? I couldn't find any > reports of similar > things resulting from upgrades in the archive. > > mvh/regards > > James > > > > 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
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