From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 5 20:14:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 18A1C37B401; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 20:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 20:14:55 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: wsk Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to change root passwd under current Message-ID: <20021005201454.A90168@FreeBSD.org> References: <002501c26cd9$0c69d280$1ba8a8c0@gddsn.eqgd.ac.cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <002501c26cd9$0c69d280$1ba8a8c0@gddsn.eqgd.ac.cn>; from wsk@mail.gddsn.org.cn on Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 09:38:19AM +0800 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: wsk [ Data: 2002-10-05 ] [ Subjecte: how to change root passwd under current ] > as title If you're having trouble doing it the normal way (passwd(1)), and are doing it via sysinstall(8), it may have to do with a previous issue about which FD the prompt for a password went to, but that has been corrected in recent -current. -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message