From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 10:16:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA18908 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:16:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emcity.cs.twsu.edu (emcity.cs.twsu.edu [156.26.10.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA18899 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:16:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by emcity.cs.twsu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26983; Tue, 25 Jun 96 12:09:21 CDT Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:09:21 -0500 (CDT) From: john goerzen To: Narvi Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plea for help! And panic & bug reports! In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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!