Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:09:21 -0500 (CDT) From: john goerzen <jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plea for help! And panic & bug reports! Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960625120738.26946A-100000@emcity> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960625171226.3188A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Narvi wrote: > > I cannot login! As root, as my normal user account, etc. It just says > > "Invalid login." After rebooting the first time under the new OS, I did > > not have to enter a password for root. I did copy passwd and > > master.passwd from the backup of the etc directory, ran pwd_mkdb or > > whatever that program is called, etc. No go! I was using DES for > > passwords, BTW. And yes, I did install the encryption stuff from the > > sysinstall program. > > How about booting to single user and trying to fix the password problem > there? Well, like I explained, the first time I rebooted, there was no problem logging in as root -- didn't even require a password. So I logged in that way, and attempted to fix the problem. I restored the old passwd and master.passwd files from the backup of /etc and ran pwd_mkdb. But the whole password file seems to not work. After rebooting, not only can root not log in, but NOBODY can!help
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