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Date:      Sun, 08 Nov 1998 05:01:17 PST
From:      "Nana Ni." <raha49@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Problem with ttys file
Message-ID:  <19981108130117.14499.qmail@hotmail.com>

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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

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