Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:09:46 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Pramod Dematagoda <pmd.lotr.gandalf@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0 Message-ID: <20081031140946.GA33710@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <1225459744.3714.10.camel@pramod-laptop.fednet> References: <1225459744.3714.10.camel@pramod-laptop.fednet>
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:59:04PM +0530, Pramod Dematagoda wrote: > But now I've faced a big problem, I can no longer seem to login to the > root account where whenever I supply the proper credentials to the login > screen, I always get thrown back to the login screen. This started > happening after I installed D-bus and HAL through the FreeBSD ports > which were built upon Xorg 1.5.1 which I had built myself previously, so > I am wondering if something I did may have caused the problem. Reboot the machine and at the FreeBSD beastie/loader menu, hit "4" to boot into single-user mode. Once there, do: # mount -a # mount -o rw -u / # passwd root And change the password. "reboot" and you should be good to go. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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