From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 08:56:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7BB37B401 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 08:56:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from timmie.dyndns.org (b80066.upc-b.chello.nl [212.83.80.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B23243FBD for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 08:56:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timmie@timmie.dyndns.org) Received: from sletje.intra.timmie.dyndns.org ([192.168.0.4]) by timmie.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.8) with SMTP id h4BFuq93059342 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 17:56:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from timmie@timmie.dyndns.org) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 17:56:53 +0200 From: Tim van den Elsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030511175653.57acbf0b.timmie@timmie.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030510233256.GB40579@webserver.get-linux.org> References: <20030510233256.GB40579@webserver.get-linux.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: your mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 15:56:58 -0000 Or.. just hit CTRL-ALT-F2 (opens up a console but drops you out of X... try F3/F4/etc. if F2 doesn't give u anything) then simply: passwd root Good luck :) On Sat, 10 May 2003 16:32:56 -0700 Joshua Oreman wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 05:03:51PM -0600 or thereabouts, Fabio Miranda Hamburger seemed to write: > > My system has only a passwordless root account > > That is an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA. > That is an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA. > Get the message? > > > and I installed xdm and > > when I tried it the n ext boot, now, i cant log in using xfree86 welcome > > screen , it appers a passwordless account cant log in using xdm, and I > > cant switch to a console or terminal because i seegarbage on screen. > > > > What can i do now to log in my machine? > > Reboot, and when you get 'Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... ', press space. > Type 'boot -s' and press enter. > Now, do: > # fsck -p > # mount -a > # passwd root # <-- Set a password. Now. > # exit > Then it'll start up and root will have a password, so he can log in. > > HTH, > -- Josh > > > > > --- > > Fabio Andres Miranda > > Ingenieria de sistemas informaticos > > Universidad Latina - Costa Rica > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >