Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:49:26 +0200 From: erakupa@kk.etx.ericsson.se (ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invalid password in single-user mode Message-ID: <199804090649.IAA01272@kk662.kk.etx.ericsson.se>
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Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote: > 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. It can't be, because the passwd table in the NIS server does not have entry for root, i.e the NIS passwd contains only user accounts. /Martti To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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