From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 30 06:21:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA15338 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 06:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lions.cableinet.net (lions.cableinet.net [193.38.113.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA15333 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 06:21:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 195.188.252.121 ([195.188.252.121]) by lions.cableinet.net (950413.SGI.8.6.12/951211.SGI) via SMTP id OAA06578 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 14:21:43 +0100 Message-ID: <338EE26B.5A1@cableinet.co.uk> Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:21:30 +0000 From: Andy Pendry Reply-To: andy.p@cableinet.co.uk Organization: Trinity Academy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Never thought I could be so stupid! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am embarrassed! I was changing user passwd's in root, and I enterted passwd without a user name (I was distracted). When I rebooted, I couldn't get into root because I had unwittingly changed the root passwd. I have tried using a boot floppy. The change root passwd option is avaialable in the menu, but when I select it, it just redisplays the menu. I can still log on as an ordinary user, but I need to get into root. Please help! Andy Pendry Network Administrator Trinity Academy