Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:41:57 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: "'Dave Banning'" <sky_tracker@yahoo.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: can't login as anyone - not even as root! Message-ID: <002a01c36d83$4bd2b7b0$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <20030828162047.32781.qmail@web12807.mail.yahoo.com>
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> All of a sudden, I can't login, even as root. I tried to set the=20 > password of root to nil (because I happened to be logged in as root at > the time) and that didn't work either. >=20 > Then, thinking that the machine was acting up, I rebooted.=20 > Now I am in=20 > deeper. I can't even access the machine. >=20 > Any idea why this would happen, or more important, how I can get out? This is a frequent question, don't panic, see link below. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-R OOT-PW
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