Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 17:56:53 +0200 From: Tim van den Elsen <timmie@timmie.dyndns.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20030511175653.57acbf0b.timmie@timmie.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030510233256.GB40579@webserver.get-linux.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305101700210.6780-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> <20030510233256.GB40579@webserver.get-linux.org>
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Or.. just hit CTRL-ALT-F2 (opens up a console but drops you out of X... try F3/F4/etc. if F2 doesn't give u anything) then simply: passwd root Good luck :) On Sat, 10 May 2003 16:32:56 -0700 Joshua Oreman <oremanj@www.get-linux.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 05:03:51PM -0600 or thereabouts, Fabio Miranda Hamburger seemed to write: > > My system has only a passwordless root account > > That is an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA. > That is an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA. > Get the message? > > > and I installed xdm and > > when I tried it the n ext boot, now, i cant log in using xfree86 welcome > > screen , it appers a passwordless account cant log in using xdm, and I > > cant switch to a console or terminal because i seegarbage on screen. > > > > What can i do now to log in my machine? > > Reboot, and when you get 'Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... ', press space. > Type 'boot -s' and press enter. > Now, do: > # fsck -p > # mount -a > # passwd root # <-- Set a password. Now. > # exit > Then it'll start up and root will have a password, so he can log in. > > HTH, > -- Josh > > > > > --- > > Fabio Andres Miranda > > Ingenieria de sistemas informaticos > > Universidad Latina - Costa Rica > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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