From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 23:26:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BF6106566C for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:26:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wrelam@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0F68FC16 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:26:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ialo14 with SMTP id o14so7256329ial.13 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:26:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ZqT4/tyxRDmoJBIlC3+cYpL076W79ZsU2fyQk2d5Qng=; b=dArFM3NUwcWpubIONiZTJTRCSDfbH+NsO3XyKgneal4WI4wuT+FOykWBg9x0c62wzv PEyBQuPLwQD5uuZQGc/oQW0AZ+mttCUHVv1BtJjwulBsrkgFN5kgkwQ/eQlYcCqrAGb+ 0lMEcCSd5d5jwVpgBZ9fV5SA5iGr5ZTpGWbLSBKiNkUicTVt16NruCz/oq0UH1pzUjte 7Ugi0MDupRRi01/Fj5fpAzjNBZRQYs5pDxFBqd+pQy3xA8M3kVWw/TJS9XuD/kklujZf 2Qg0eroc8iZqFDqM3uGo32IW1wzJ4rIr8cKkVsIQAdxDMsm664tVx4BtvNFnemdf7v1P 4TKA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.209.99 with SMTP id ml3mr4726953igc.31.1346455610281; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.43.57.147 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:26:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <50414003.9090400@stormy.smart-serv.net> References: <50414003.9090400@stormy.smart-serv.net> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:26:50 -0400 Message-ID: From: Walt Elam To: Jeremy Johnston Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root password not working on console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:26:51 -0000 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 >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org " >> >> >