Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 16:32:56 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Fabio Miranda Hamburger <fabmirha@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20030510233256.GB40579@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305101700210.6780-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305101700210.6780-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr>
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On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 05:03:51PM -0600 or thereabouts, Fabio Miranda Hamburger seemed to write: > My system has only a passwordless root account That is an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA. That is an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA. Get the message? > and I installed xdm and > when I tried it the n ext boot, now, i cant log in using xfree86 welcome > screen , it appers a passwordless account cant log in using xdm, and I > cant switch to a console or terminal because i seegarbage on screen. > > What can i do now to log in my machine? Reboot, and when you get 'Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... ', press space. Type 'boot -s' and press enter. Now, do: # fsck -p # mount -a # passwd root # <-- Set a password. Now. # exit Then it'll start up and root will have a password, so he can log in. HTH, -- Josh > > --- > Fabio Andres Miranda > Ingenieria de sistemas informaticos > Universidad Latina - Costa Rica > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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