From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 7 9:18:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from simrad_4.simdom (unknown [63.66.44.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC5037B405 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:18:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simradusaadmin@simradusa.com) Received: from simradusa.com (cwiegand [157.237.65.238]) by simrad_4.simdom (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f77GTUP00271 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:29:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simradusaadmin@simradusa.com) Message-ID: <3B70152E.258E6C1A@simradusa.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 09:19:58 -0700 From: simradusaadmin Reply-To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: root/superuser account - big problem - please help Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was connected to my fbsd4.2 box via telnet and used chpass to change the password for the root account, and it appeared to save okay. I then went to the bsd box to verify that the I entered the password okay, when I see this message on the screen - /kernel: psminter: out of sync (0028!=0008) Now I cannot logon as root or use su, I am always told the password is incorrect. I have tried both the old and new passwords, on the bsd box and via telnet, no luck. I had a second telnet window open, where I was su'd so I rebooted the server from there. My root account appears to be locked out, what should I do? I cannot start apache or samba. -- Chip Wiegand Computer Services Simrad, Inc http://www.simradusa.com http://www.simrad.com chip.wiegand@simrad.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message