Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:28:27 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: "'Dave Banning'" <sky_tracker@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: can't login as anyone - not even as root! Message-ID: <001001c36ddd$9cd0b770$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <20030829032249.72273.qmail@web12808.mail.yahoo.com>
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> > >I didn't forget my password. I simply can't login. No one=20 > can login. > > >Even when my root password is set to nil I can't login. > >=20 > > Not even in single user mode? There is no login in single=20 > user mode, > > you are root by default with no password. >=20 > Yes, I get the root # prompt, but I can't use the command passwd. > It just prompts me for a password even though the password is null. > I used vipw so the master.passwd file is updated. That doesn't sound right, in single user mode the prompt is 'ok'. Are you mounting your filesystems?
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