Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 19:25:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson <branson@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Root passwd again! Message-ID: <199508222325.TAA02420@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199508222240.RAA28636@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Aug 22, 95 05:40:16 pm
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> This means that you made your console insecure.
> As far as I know, your only option now is a reinstall. :(
Not true!!!!
make a boot floppy and boot from there... goto the maintenance shell and
make your changes to /etc/passwd ( and /etc/ttys ) ... Probably the best
way is the boot from dos option.
-branson
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