Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 08:12:22 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> Cc: LPPelletier@lodgenet.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root passwd again! Message-ID: <199508231312.IAA25426@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Aug 1995 00:18:17 BST." <9108.809133497@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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> In message <199508222240.RAA28636@jake.lodgenet.com>, "Eric L. Hernes" writes: > >Sounds like an SCO message. But the FreeBSD message is similar, > >'Enter root password, or ^D to go multi-user'. > > >This means that you made your console insecure. > >As far as I know, your only option now is a reinstall. :( > > If you can get hold of a fixit floppy, or ask someone to put one > together for you, with just mount & vi and a directory, you could > probably bring it back (assuming you can boot from floppy, or if you > can't, you can remember the BIOS password :-) ). > Yea, I thought about the floppy method just after I clicked the `send' button > Gary > -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com
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