Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 13:25:28 +0200 From: Rob Simons <rob@Simplex.NL> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root passwd again! Message-ID: <199508261125.NAA11517@Simplex.NL>
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| > This means that you made your console insecure. | > As far as I know, your only option now is a reinstall. :( | Not true!!!! | make a boot floppy and boot from there... goto the maintenance shell and | make your changes to /etc/passwd ( and /etc/ttys ) ... Probably the best | way is the boot from dos option. I was wondering if it is also possible to just interrup the boot process, since this has always worked for me. (though I don't have my console set at insecure) I mean, while it's recognising the installed hardware, press ^\ a few times till it responds with the 'Going to single user mode'. Or is this exactly the same as specifying the '-s' option ? - Rob.
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