From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 8 23:32:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA29849 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 23:32:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA29826 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 23:31:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA13704; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 23:31:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 23:31:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invalid password in single-user mode In-Reply-To: <199804080744.JAA00836@kk662.kk.etx.ericsson.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen wrote: > I have also disabled boot from floppy and activated BIOS password to > give better security (I known, one could always open the box...). So > this is not really needed but one of those "nice-to-have" things. Ah, I see. > > Are you running NIS? > > Yes, this is a NIS client. I bet that your root password is set by NIS and not stored on the local machine. Thus when NIS goes away, the system doesn't know root's password. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message