Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:36:48 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?m=20p?= <sumirati@yahoo.de> To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root/superuser account - big problem - please help Message-ID: <20010807163648.36042.qmail@web13306.mail.yahoo.com>
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> I was connected to my fbsd4.2 box via telnet and used chpass to change > the password > for the root account, and it appeared to save okay. I then went to the > bsd box to verify > that the I entered the password okay, when I see this message on the > screen - > /kernel: psminter: out of sync (0028!=0008) > Now I cannot logon as root or use su, I am always told the password is > incorrect. I have > tried both the old and new passwords, on the bsd box and via telnet, no > luck. I had a > second telnet window open, where I was su'd so I rebooted the server > from there. > My root account appears to be locked out, what should I do? I cannot > start apache or > samba. > Try the following link: http://www.de.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW Hope that helps marc __________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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