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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!news.onramp.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!news1.channel1.com!wizard.pn.com!news.zeitgeist.net!news.pixi.com!usenet From: rjh@pacinfo.net (R J Huntington) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't login as root ! Date: 1 Apr 1996 20:28:07 GMT Organization: Pacific Information Exchange Inc Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4jpe8n$kv1@rigel.pixi.com> References: <4ji91k$st7@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <4jkdft$90b@spy.vs.spy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: romulus.pixi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 >walter (walter@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw) wrote: >: Now, I can't login my computer (FreeBSD) as root by the password >: I used before. I have not change password this morning! What's wrong ? >: Some one changed my password when I connet to internet? Or, there is >: something wrong on my hard disk..... While it is good practice NOT to log in as root (to su instead) and to disallow root logins, you can solve your problem for now by booting from a fixit floppy, which gives you a root shell. Then you can add one or more accounts by running adduser. If you haven't yet made a fixit floppy, ftp the file fixit.flp from ftp.FreeBSD.org or a mirror site and create the floppy using rawrite.exe under DOS.