From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 16:25:59 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA25351 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 16:25:59 -0700 Received: from dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (dvals1.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.4.96]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA25343 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 16:25:57 -0700 Received: (from branson@localhost) by dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA02420; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 19:25:38 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199508222325.TAA02420@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Root passwd again! To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 19:25:37 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <199508222240.RAA28636@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Aug 22, 95 05:40:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 683 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 -- MATHESON, E BRANSON E.B.MATHESON@LaRC.NASA.GOV Mail Stop 488 COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION NASA Langley Research Center Assigned to Operations Support Division Hampton, VA 23681-0001 Phone +1 804 864-9700 http://longstreet.larc.nasa.gov/~branson/index.html