Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 10:34:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "E. Lakin" <pharaoh@u.washington.edu> To: Andy Pendry <andy.p@cableinet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Never thought I could be so stupid! Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95b.970530103130.20798A-100000@dante05.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <338EE26B.5A1@cableinet.co.uk>
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On Fri, 30 May 1997, Andy Pendry wrote: > I am embarrassed! > > I was changing user passwd's in root, and I enterted passwd without a > user name (I was distracted). When I rebooted, I couldn't get into root > because I had unwittingly changed the root passwd. > > I have tried using a boot floppy. The change root passwd option is > avaialable in the menu, but when I select it, it just redisplays the > menu. If you reboot the machine into single-user mode (-s at the boot prompt), you'll have root access. The passwd file can then be edited.
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