Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 09:48:19 -0400 From: Shashi Joshi <shashi@websi.com> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 -> 3.2 STABLE upgrade changes root password??? Message-ID: <19990605094819.A29269@WEBSI.com> In-Reply-To: <37591AC9.B7C29EB2@math.missouri.edu>; from Stephen Montgomery-Smith on Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:40:41AM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990605083901.13810A-100000@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <37591AC9.B7C29EB2@math.missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith worked magic with the keyboard on Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:40:41AM -0500:
> 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 tried that but it has the root partition in read only mode :-((
> 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.
Another explanation that may be correct is the shell of root. I had
/bin/tcsh as the default shell for all accounts. I checked that the
aout -> elf did NOT generate a new tcsh (since it is a port) so
that is sitting in the aout format.
I am doing a "UPGRADE" from the 2.2.7 CD of the "USER" (binaries
and doc only) components, and hopefully that will succeed.
Thanks for your input.
--
Shashi Joshi
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