From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 13:29:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84B9150CA for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 13:29:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr364-a118.otenet.gr [195.167.112.214]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA08096 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 23:28:40 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 1135 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Nov 1999 17:58:39 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: archiver@db.geocrawler.com Subject: Re: blocked root: digital unix References: <199911021608.IAA03072@www.geocrawler.com> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 03 Nov 1999 19:58:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Neeraj Bhatia"'s message of "Tue, 2 Nov 1999 08:08:30 -0800" Message-ID: <86aeov8njk.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Neeraj Bhatia" writes: > Dear Freinds, > I am running dig unix on alpha. Till yesterday I was receiving a > message saying that root passwd would expire dec 7.So i treid to > increase the life time through dxaccounts Now the m/c refuses to take > root logins. It doesnot allow any other user logins too... A wild guess now, because I am not running digital unix, just FreeBSD. Can you bring the system to single user mode somehow? After that, try mounting the filesystems as read-write manually, change the root password thing, umount all filesystems and reboot. I don't know if this is going to be actually of any help, but that's what I would do. At least before paying some money on phone-calls to tech-support and stuff. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message