Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:28:31 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Christopher Svensrud <chris.svensrud@sbcglobal.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Login question Message-ID: <40AD06DF.1000704@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040520192252.D813E43D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20040520192252.D813E43D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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Christopher Svensrud wrote: > I keep having the same problem with login. The system keeps indicating that > the password is incorrect. I have been able to reset the password and still > it gives me the same message. > > I just started running FreBSD and I was setting up Samba when this occurred. Reboot the system by hitting <ctrl>+<alt>+<delete>, while it's booting back up, press space bar when you see the "press <enter> to boot or ..." and before it finishes counting down. (You don't mention which version of FreeBSD you're using, but FreeBSD 5 has a spiffy menu here where you can just select a menu item for single-user mode) At the prompt, enter "boot -s" to boot into single- user mode. When asked for a default shell, just hit <enter> to accept the default. Once you have a shell prompt, enter "fsck -y" and then "mount -a". Now you're logged in and can execute commands as root. Enter "passwd <user>" to change the password for <user>. If you omit <user>, you'll change the root password. good luck. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.comhelp
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