From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 11 03:46:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5115C106566C for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:46:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp121.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (smtp121.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [69.147.64.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19D4C8FC14 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:46:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 41131 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2008 03:20:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Message-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:From:Subject:Date:To:X-Mailer; b=P1loISU7evpnRACRO1dNKVOYeuAiH+NR/WVE3dUkm1Ff/p8RWQlDyK3AHn2qyTQPsghgNYik92M/XYe12bk+u/4pExzhTIwO7fVxL5Go0xjGORDsOqcuxY3h0ylxTx8msNDi/1aKT6iZxR22YHl6nzVqnPLytj/J05IFh+qfcxA= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?75.7.236.228?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@75.7.236.228 with plain) by smtp121.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Mar 2008 03:20:04 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: cDbuplMVM1kYESuHmKzB3zhH7sKhGBysblPpIPOq0cmqOfcBVhsmKoWnUoFkd7nDHMRLqhdZTg-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <22c1f1e5cca8ccef59f6c8b107160fd2@prodigy.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: jekillen Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:18:37 -0800 To: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Cc: jekillen Subject: re subscribing to the list X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:46:45 -0000 Hello; I have unsubscribed form this list but have an emergency and need some suggestions, that are not covered in the manuals or Absolute FreeBSD. Specifically, I have had a machine running with the same root password for some 3 years. There was a power failure tonight and when I rebooted the machine I found I was unable to log in as root. No one other than me uses the machine, but it does run several internet servers, Apache, named, postfix. I doubt that it has been compromised to that degree over the network because I have tcp wrappers blocking ftp and ssh access and have telnet disabled. I have it shut down now incase that is the situation (someone was able to change or corrupt the root password) But it appears that it somehow has just gotten corrupted so it won't work. Is that possible. The long and short is I want to avoid having to re install the system and software. I do not have Apache and Postfix starting automatically at boot. Thanks in advance; Jeff K