From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 06:15:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA02148 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 06:15:21 -0700 Received: from tserv.lodgenet.com (dial27.iw.net [204.157.148.76]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA02084 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 06:13:57 -0700 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by tserv.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA01137; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 08:14:02 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA25426; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 08:12:25 -0500 Message-Id: <199508231312.IAA25426@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6 4/21/95 To: Gary Palmer cc: LPPelletier@lodgenet.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root passwd again! In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Aug 1995 00:18:17 BST." <9108.809133497@palmer.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 08:12:22 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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