From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 7 13:07:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00521 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 13:07:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00442 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 13:07:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA26883; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 13:07:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 13:07:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invalid password in single-user mode In-Reply-To: <199804071250.OAA00407@kk662.kk.etx.ericsson.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen wrote: > What's wrong with my 2.2.6-RELEASE machine? In the multi-user > mode I can login as root, but the root password is not accepted in > single-user mode. I am using non-US version of DES instead of > MD5 if that matters... you need the root password in single user mode? Are you running NIS? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message