Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 15:11:32 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: ZAPPING ON LINE - Service de Presse <zapping@worldnet.fr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help !! Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970327151131.00c0e42c@mixcom.com>
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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
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