From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 18:02:04 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA28625 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:02:04 -0700 Received: from strider.ibenet.it ([194.179.130.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA28615 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:01:56 -0700 Received: (from piero@localhost) by strider.ibenet.it (8.6.12/8.6.12) id DAA07860; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 03:00:32 +0200 From: Piero Serini Message-Id: <199508230100.DAA07860@strider.ibenet.it> Subject: Re: Root passwd again! To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 03:00:31 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: LPPelletier@cmq.qc.ca, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508222240.RAA28636@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Aug 22, 95 05:40:16 pm Reply-To: Piero@strider.ibenet.it Operating-System: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 X-Phone-Number: +39 (2) 58113562 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 565 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello. Quoting from Eric L. Hernes (Wed Aug 23 00:40:16 1995): > This means that you made your console insecure. > As far as I know, your only option now is a reinstall. :( No! Boot from diskette, jump into the shell, mount /dev/ on /mnt, mount /dev/ on /mnt/usr, chroot /mnt /bin/sh, check the PATH and run vipw. Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 I 20136 Milano - ITALY