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From: viren@cy.cs.olemiss.edu (Viren R. Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Messed up with DES -- cant login! HELP
Date: 21 Oct 1993 21:31:39 GMT
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
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machine info: 486DX2-66 running FreeBSD
First of all, I made a major mistake, and i know it -- so please hold
the "how dumb can you be" posts, please :)
I was trying to get xdm up and running on the machine, (originally
someone else had got X working). I discovered that xdm wasn't working
cause libcrypt.a was not present (or atleast thats what i think it was
-- isn't libcrypt.a reqd. to run xdm-des?). Anyway, so i got the stuff
from the securedist directory on freebsd.cdrom.com over and installed
it. Then, like a complete ass, i went and rebooted without removing
the root passwd. So, when i booted up, i couldn't log in. I rebooted
in single user mode, and deleted the root passwd, as well as those of
the other accts. on there (just two others). However, when i rebooted,
i still couldn't log in! (Note: all this was without xdm running --
i'll tackle that later)
So, currently, i have all the securedist stuff installed, no passwds
in the master.passwd and in passwd (i went and removed the * in the
passwd field in the passwd file, as a desperate measure), and i can't
login at all.
Obvious conclusion : i'm doing something wrong! :(
Question is what can i do to re-enable logins? (besides re-installing FreeBSD?)
HEEELLPPPPP!
viren
viren@cy.cs.olemiss.edu
PS: I bet the FreeBSD team's getting tired of me screwing up and then
running to them for help :)
--
viren shah $ " "
viren@cy.cs.olemiss.edu $ -- viren shah 23rd july 1993