From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 16 18:22:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6706D16A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:22:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www6.web2010.com (www6.web2010.com [216.157.5.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5CEB43D1D for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:22:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MLandman@face2interface.com) Received: from delliver.face2interface.com (inoc202-203.veranet.net [216.238.202.203] (may be forged)) by www6.web2010.com (8.12.10/8.9.0) with ESMTP id j3GIM9Xa029072; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:22:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20050416140511.03b295f0@mail.face2interface.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.0.14 Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:22:12 -0400 To: Joshua Tinnin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Marty Landman In-Reply-To: <200504161035.55854.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050225125247.02e6d948@mail.face2interface.com> <20050227182510.GB44504@osiris.chen.org.nz> <6.2.0.14.0.20050416124420.03a0bed0@mail.face2interface.com> <200504161035.55854.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: lost root passwd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:22:58 -0000 At 01:35 PM 4/16/2005, Joshua Tinnin wrote: First, I've been warned about 5.2 before. Thing is a while back I asked a neighbor with broadband for a solid and he generously d/l'd the lastest stable fbsd for me. I have another box running 4.8 from the mini-iso. I don't want to ask him again, so if 5.2 is going to inadvisable may convert this box over to either 4.8 too, or possibly Debian Woody for which I also have a mini-iso but that old box is no longer... though its old cdrom lives on in my dell workstation. :) >% sysctl kern.securelevel > >If it's anything but -1 No, it is -1 even from my wheel user id -- not root. >Did you do > ># mount -u / ># passwd root Joshua, when I do the 'mount -u /' get back WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck mount: /dev/ad-s1a: Operation not permitted >Here's some info about PAM: >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pam/pam-config.html I'm using /etc/pam.d rather than /etc/pam.conf, fwiw. However everything (the pam.d directory and all files within it) are writeable only by root, so don't see how that's going to help. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search & Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal