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From: tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: login trouble
Date: 10 Feb 1994 13:50:19 +0800
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alexlh (alexlh@hacktic.nl) wrote:
: I have the following problem:
:
: I can't login on any account that has a password on it. Login doesn't ask even ask for a password, it just tells me 'Login incorrect.' If I delete the
: password, I can login without any problems, but it isn't the proper way to set
: up a root account.
: When I run passwd (the program), it responds with 'Mismatch; try again, EOF to
: quit.' It prints this a million times, ands the only way to stop it is to kill
: it from another terminal.
Strangely enough I had exactly the same problem. I bet you have been making
some devices, and inadvertently created a bogus /dev/tty or something like that.
Hang on... I'll log into my FreeBSD box....
I fyou are running FreeBSD and the device /dev/tty does _not_ look like this:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 1, 0 Feb 9 22:03 tty
it should. I urge extreme caution with this. you might lock yourself out
of your box if you are not careful.
Probably the best move is to cd to /dev and try a `sh MAKEDEV all' and see what
happens.
When this happened to me I had been fiddling making syscons devices and
while fiddling with the MAKEDEV script created this bogus tty. I actually
went through the extract process again thinking some binary had been screwed
up at some stage. Boy was I upset when that didn't fix it.
: I've tried running pwd_mkdb, useing binaries from another FreeBSD machine, but
Almost the same as extracting the sources... It won't help
: the problem won't go away...
: Help me!
: Alex Le Heux
good luck
Terry
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