From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 21:08:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72622106566B for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:08:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E518FC0C for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:08:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20081026210836.BDQZ2285.mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:08:36 +0000 Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org ([82.21.101.171]) by aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vG.2.02.00.01 201-2161-120-102-20060912) with ESMTP id <20081026210836.ZSU21638.aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@catflap.slightlystrange.org> for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:08:36 +0000 Received: by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix, from userid 106) id 3FEC56182; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:08:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from torus.slightlystrange.org (torus.slightlystrange.org [10.1.3.50]) by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BDEC6167 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:08:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by torus.slightlystrange.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:08:32 +0000 From: "Daniel Bye" Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:08:32 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081026210832.GA20813@torus.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3378.84.18.11.147.1224942988.squirrel@mail.dsa.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE i386 X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=qBzm7OuKNCoA:10 a=wD97yw_pUdIA:10 a=ehNlctqhnw0A:10 a=bkJKvJ0hTLot4BKmKTsA:9 a=xF9-enG3SC1LylG9h0S_MZnAbt4A:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 a=HP-il_O8zAMCjvxUKSQA:9 a=tX_2QrebB8AMfSRfkgRYx0I4RSIA:4 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 Subject: Re: How to restore a lost root password... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:08:39 -0000 --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:18:25PM +0100, Rada alive wrote: > > I have seen a "How to" about this but I have a problem, i set the conso= le > > to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the "how to" i get a messa= ge > > to input the root password or Ctrl-D to enter in multiuser mode. >=20 > What happened to just booting into single-user mode and issuing passwd? The OP made a point of letting us know that he has marked his console `insecure' in /etc/ttys. In order to even get a shell in single user, he needs the root password. Dan --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkE3FAACgkQixf5fBYiFmrMSwCgzoj/sIMiGWcNzBhkGKCWQwc8 4VUAniVrI4n+8ysPWlV6eBUPoII3oDiW =TMxL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--