Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 12:23:24 GMT
From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To: questions@freebsd.org
Cc: zort@penrithcity.nsw.gov.au ("Dean Hamstead")
Subject: Re: login.access
Message-ID: <379c52de.62961453@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <MAIL000501bed744$5ab1c3e0$530d29cb@supadad>
References: <MAIL000501bed744$5ab1c3e0$530d29cb@supadad>
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On 26 Jul 1999 04:53:51 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >whiel trying to enable root, when telneting from another machine >i tampered with login.access and have locked myself out! doh! > >short of reinstall how can i fix this? i never got su to work for anyother >user except root (something about groups, i put the user in every group, and >even tried making it the owner of su) Boot to single user mode and make the fixes. If you installed the sources, look in /usr/src/etc/login.access for the original. To allow users to su to root, add then in the group wheel in /etc/groups ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Who is this 'BSD', and why should we free him?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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