From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 11:01:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA23740 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:01:58 -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 LAA23726 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by emcity.cs.twsu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27142; Tue, 25 Jun 96 12:15:20 CDT Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:15:20 -0500 (CDT) From: john goerzen To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plea for help! And panic & bug reports! In-Reply-To: <18785.835720584@time.cdrom.com> 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, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > [ PLEASE do not cross-post to questions, hackers and bugs! I'm getting > pretty cheesed-off at people dumping multiple copies of stuff into > my mailbox and will be adopting a policy shortly of not even responding > to something which is cross-posted to more than 2 major mailing lists > (and even 2 is one too many) - if you want a response from me (or anyone > who feels the same way as me) in the future then please limit your posts > to a SINGLE list! Thanks!!!] Sorry! Won't happen again! BTW, what would have been the appropriate list for this one, questions or bugs? As it did include a number of bug reports. > This problem is easy to fix. Boot single user with the `-s' flag and > then do: > Well, that will fix root's password, but what about everyone else's? *Nobody* can log in right now. The passwd and master.passwd files are intact. I did run pwd_mkdb. Thanks for your help. > mount -u / > passwd root > > > reboot >