From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 7 9:36:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web13306.mail.yahoo.com (web13306.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAAB037B405 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:36:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sumirati@yahoo.de) Message-ID: <20010807163648.36042.qmail@web13306.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.174.9.99] by web13306.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 07 Aug 2001 18:36:48 CEST Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:36:48 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?m=20p?= Subject: Re: root/superuser account - big problem - please help To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. > Try the following link: http://www.de.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW Hope that helps marc __________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message