From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 6: 9:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 974E637B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 06:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26204 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2001 14:09:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.135.124) by smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 12 Dec 2001 14:09:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 6135 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2001 14:08:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mother.wastegate.net) (192.168.1.2) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 12 Dec 2001 14:08:51 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Dimitri T" , "questions@freebsd.org" Cc: "midiostri@yahoo.co.uk" Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:08:24 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <20011212080445.20790.qmail@web14701.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: the door is closed! Message-Id: <20011212140915.974E637B417@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 08:04:45 +0000 (GMT), Dimitri T wrote: >i've just installed freebsd and i'm trying to login >for the first time but this seems impossible. > >i'm sure that during the installation i've typed the >word 'secret' as the root password but after rebooting >this password is not accepted! :( > >after this i've booted in single mode but when i give ># passwd root >and try to set the password, i get a "read-only file >system". vipw won't do it either.. boot single user, to get a writeable file system, i do this: umount -a mount -a that unmounts all systems, and mount remounts all as writeable, then run passwd --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message