From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 02:27:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E539316A422 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:27:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A8543D46 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:27:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.31]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8L2Pru6080436 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:55:58 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, joseph.koshy@gmail.com Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:55:52 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <84dead7205092018524dcc7a6e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84dead7205092018524dcc7a6e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2496144.rq0t9fqSVf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509211155.52898.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.82 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Joe Bouterse Subject: Re: Can't Logon as Root X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:27:54 -0000 --nextPart2496144.rq0t9fqSVf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 21 September 2005 11:22, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > path, and now cannot logon as root. I=B9ve tried every command I > > can think of, but cannot get anywhere. Obviously, I=B9m new to > > FreeBSD, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-RO= OT >-PW And.. Don't login as root! Use su or sudo! =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2496144.rq0t9fqSVf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDMMSw5ZPcIHs/zowRAlLOAJ0YAf6mStJVGM/AjGHihtSbs3aDiwCeMviy j47FekciI7RNkXtzQZKIDqo= =4KxR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2496144.rq0t9fqSVf--