Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:13:14 -0500 (CDT) From: john goerzen <jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu> To: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plea for help! And panic & bug reports! Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960625121025.26946C-100000@emcity> In-Reply-To: <199606251757.RAA13558@CoDe.CoDe.hu>
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On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Gabor Zahemszky 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. > > Try to boot to single-user mode with boot -s! Well, I had it booting OK at beginning. Well, sorta. It didn't require a password for root. I copied the passwd and master.passwd files from the backup of /etc and ran pwd_mkdb. Now, not only can root not login, but NOBODY can login. It seems EVERYONE's passwords are messed up! > And a question: are there any upgrades to the CDU-33A code in this version? I really can't say; I haven't had a chance to look at anything yet -- have to figure out how to login first :-) Wouldn't it be cool, though, if it locked the CD drive and then automatically eject it when you unmount it? <g>
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