Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 23:31:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen <erakupa@kk.etx.ericsson.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invalid password in single-user mode Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980408233105.13615L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804080744.JAA00836@kk662.kk.etx.ericsson.se>
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen wrote: > I have also disabled boot from floppy and activated BIOS password to > give better security (I known, one could always open the box...). So > this is not really needed but one of those "nice-to-have" things. Ah, I see. > > Are you running NIS? > > Yes, this is a NIS client. I bet that your root password is set by NIS and not stored on the local machine. Thus when NIS goes away, the system doesn't know root's password. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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