From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 19:34:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA29399 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:34:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29388 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:34:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA08613; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:33:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:33:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Douglas C. Garrick" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I blew it bad! In-Reply-To: <9702261849.AA11821@panther> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Douglas C. Garrick wrote: > Well I apparently dropped a quotation mark while editing /etc/sysconfig > yesterday. Because now, when the machine boots it hits the error in > /etc/sysconfig and bombs. It tells me to supply the root password or ^D > to boot multiuser. How wierd. Exactly where does it die, and with what error? > Problem... I have never NEVER supplied a root password. And I sure > can't rememer changing the console to insecure in /etc/ttys. Then there is no password; just hit and carry on. Do you have to enter a pw when you su? > Is there a way to boot and bypass /etc/sysconfig? If not how can I use > a fixit floppy to mount /dev/sd01a and vi the /mnt/etc/sysconfig? Or is > there some other way to boot to single user and fix the /etc/sysconfig? > Or is there some secret password recovery scheme that I can use to find > a nonexistant password? Put -s on the Boot: prompt. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major