Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:26:50 -0400 From: Walt Elam <wrelam@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Johnston <jeremy@stormy.smart-serv.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root password not working on console Message-ID: <CAConN%2B=hP0XAiwrQukgDaSOf2o_MQrNASGFisfgqRn%2Bz9m1ZWQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50414003.9090400@stormy.smart-serv.net> References: <CAConN%2BmaBrGrHPC3ohxkaDztUQms6j=VOgpu0viCTDT%2BXKcy6A@mail.gmail.com> <50414003.9090400@stormy.smart-serv.net>
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Jeremy, Nailed it on the head. I had forgotten that a few weeks ago I was messing around with that file. I changed this line: ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on insecure to this: ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure And now I am able to login to root from the console. Thanks for the quick help! I should've remembered that. -Walt On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Jeremy Johnston < jeremy@stormy.smart-serv.net> wrote: > On 08/31/2012 03:37 PM, Walt Elam wrote: > >> I recently *accidentally* removed myself from the wheel group, so I was no >> longer able to use su to root. To fix it, I hooked up a monitor and >> keyboard to my FreeBSD 8.2 box so I could login as root, but it kept >> rejecting my password. I restarted the machine in single-user mode, did >> the >> following: >> >> mount -u / >> mount -a >> passwd >> exit >> >> So it booted back in to multi-user mode. Once again, I tried to login as >> root, but got the same "Login incorrect" message. Puzzled, I repeated the >> previous steps using the password "pass" this time. However, I went ahead >> and added my user account to the wheel group while in single-user mode. >> Once in multi-user mode again, I still got "Login incorrect" >> (specifically, >> pam_acct_mgmt(): authentication error) when logging in as root. I SSH'd to >> the machine as my regular user, typed su, and entered "pass" which worked >> just fine. >> >> So, I have absolutely no clue why I am unable to login to my machine, on >> the console, as root with "pass", but it works when using su from a >> regular >> user account. I tried searching around but almost all of the hits are >> about >> resetting the root password in single-user mode. Does any one know what >> I'm >> doing incorrectly? >> >> Thanks for any help in advance, >> >> -Walt >> > > The only thing that comes to mind would be to check /etc/ttys and see if > the console ttys are set to insecure, which would prevent root login. > >> ______________________________**_________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>; >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" >> >> >
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