From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 18:29:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA08813 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA08807 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:29:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA06459; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:21:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604100121.SAA06459@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: HELP !!!!!! To: pgiffuni@biblioteca.campus.unal.edu.co (Pedro Giffuni) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:21:26 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Pedro Giffuni" at Apr 9, 96 02:57:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I ran sysinstall to add the exportable kerberos and DES stuff. I added > some few other things, and rebooted. > After reboot fbsd doesn`t accept anybodies password. I was trying to run > the fixit floppy but I don't have any idea how it works. > What can I do? 8-). Your root password is probably an MD5 string and your authentication is being done via DES. You will need to boot single user and set a new root password -- which will be DES this time. Then you can login as root and reset the password on your other user accounts. If you were running -current, it automatically adjusts for MD5 or DES passwords in the password file. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.