From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 13:18:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA23220 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA23215 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:18:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id PAA11123; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 15:19:41 -0600 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma011074; Thu Mar 27 21:19:09 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970327151131.00c0e42c@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 15:11:32 -0600 To: Doug White From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Help !! Cc: ZAPPING ON LINE - Service de Presse , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:19 AM 3/27/97 -0800, Doug White wrote: >On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, ZAPPING ON LINE - Service de Presse wrote: > >> My login Root is blocked !! :( > >Did you forget the password? > >> what is the solution ? > >If you haven'tsecured the console, you can type '-s' at the boot: prompt >to get to single user mode. From thereyou can use vipw and fix your root >password. Huh? What about 'passwd root' or 'chpass root'? Last I saw was encrypted passwords in master.passwd . >> I want to worked on the master.passwd file ! > >Only use vipw when editing the password file. Locking is your friend. ;-) ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990