From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 10:19:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA19124 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:19:02 -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 KAA19102 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by emcity.cs.twsu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27105; Tue, 25 Jun 96 12:13:15 CDT Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:13:14 -0500 (CDT) From: john goerzen To: Gabor Zahemszky Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plea for help! And panic & bug reports! In-Reply-To: <199606251757.RAA13558@CoDe.CoDe.hu> 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, 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?