Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:37:32 +0800 (PHT) From: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: URGENT: login failed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980115143516.13279A-100000@cody.usls.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980115012957.10765A-100000@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote: > Start the computer up in single user mode (at the boot: prompt, type > -s). Then, mount /usr, and change the ownership of /usr/bin/login. > Then reboot. thanks! i can now logon to my machine! :) great! moral lesson: never change the ownership of programs unless you know what you're doing. heh. > > i accidentally changed the ownership of the program `login' from root.bin > > to bin.bin :I how do i fix this problem since i could not login to the > > machine? --- francis vidal | usls.NET | university of st. la salle, bacolod city, PH PGP key available at ftp://ftp.usls.edu/pub/pgpkeys/francis.pgp "birds of the same feathers are birds!" - rhoderick samonte's class
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