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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Just Curious
Date: 7 Sep 1995 09:44:12 +0200
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Daan Nagtegaal <daan@magnet.csir.co.za> wrote:
>Yesterday I put the FreeBSD disk back but discovered to my amazement
that I can't >login anymore, both as 'root' nor under my normal
username. >As my getting Unix experience is very low priority I will
wait for ver 2.1.0 and >load this again. But what happened??
No idea, but you can boot with "-s" (at the boot: prompt), this will
put your system into single-user mode. Run fsck manually, then "mount
-a -t ufs" to have all your partitions mounted and writeable, and then
you'll be able to change the password again.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)