From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 8 05:01:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA09844 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:01:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotmail.com (f73.hotmail.com [207.82.250.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA09839 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:01:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from raha49@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 14500 invoked by uid 0); 8 Nov 1998 13:01:17 -0000 Message-ID: <19981108130117.14499.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 195.96.144.10 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sun, 08 Nov 1998 05:01:17 PST X-Originating-IP: [195.96.144.10] From: "Nana Ni." To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with ttys file MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 05:01:17 PST Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I haev mistakenly changed all of the terminals including console from "secure" to "insecure" in /etc/ttys file. This file can be written only by root. There has already been a problem in "su", i.e. because of not deactivating the Kerberose completely, I can't [and couldn't] do "su" from another account. So I need to access the system by root to edit the ttys file, but I can't access to system by root (becasue console is insecure and su doesn't work!). I tried to edit the file by booting the machine in single user mode, but as it mounts "/" file system as read-only file system, it isn't possible to edit the /etc/ttys. Please let me know how I can get rid of it, if anybody has any idea! Raha ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message