From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 5 5:40:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tranq1.tranquility.net (tranq1.tranquility.net [206.156.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E72D14D68 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 05:40:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (stephen.tranquility.net [206.156.230.78]) by tranq1.tranquility.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA23035; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 07:40:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37591AC9.B7C29EB2@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 07:40:41 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Szilveszter Cc: Shashi Joshi , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jonathan Delgado Subject: Re: 2.2.7 -> 3.2 STABLE upgrade changes root password??? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Adam Szilveszter wrote: > > > > The problem now is that at login prompt I am trying the root login and the > > passwd seems to have changed!!! I tried a userid/passwd other than root > > too. None works. I am not able to log in or look at the > > passwd file. At boot time just before the first login: prompt I do see some > > missing /usr/.../ld.so ?? That is all. Can't you boot into single user mode and correct the passwords that way? When you get that message "booting in ... seconds" press a key, then type boot -s. I recall having a similar problem when upgrading. I think it was because the password authentication method changed, so the encrypted passwords were the same, but they meant something entirely different. I caught it before rebooting - now after any major change to the OS or password file, I always test it first before rebooting. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message