Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:22:12 -0400 From: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> To: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lost root passwd Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20050416140511.03b295f0@mail.face2interface.com> In-Reply-To: <200504161035.55854.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050225125247.02e6d948@mail.face2interface.com> <20050227182510.GB44504@osiris.chen.org.nz> <6.2.0.14.0.20050416124420.03a0bed0@mail.face2interface.com> <200504161035.55854.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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At 01:35 PM 4/16/2005, Joshua Tinnin wrote: First, I've been warned about 5.2 before. Thing is a while back I asked a neighbor with broadband for a solid and he generously d/l'd the lastest stable fbsd for me. I have another box running 4.8 from the mini-iso. I don't want to ask him again, so if 5.2 is going to inadvisable may convert this box over to either 4.8 too, or possibly Debian Woody for which I also have a mini-iso but that old box is no longer... though its old cdrom lives on in my dell workstation. :) >% sysctl kern.securelevel > >If it's anything but -1 No, it is -1 even from my wheel user id -- not root. >Did you do > ># mount -u / ># passwd root Joshua, when I do the 'mount -u /' get back WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck mount: /dev/ad-s1a: Operation not permitted >Here's some info about PAM: >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pam/pam-config.html I'm using /etc/pam.d rather than /etc/pam.conf, fwiw. However everything (the pam.d directory and all files within it) are writeable only by root, so don't see how that's going to help. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search & Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal
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