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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: lost root passwd Date: 27 May 1996 10:19:54 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4obvka$6u0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <slegter.832754504@ruunat.fys.ruu.nl> <4o0fq1$c6c@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) wrote: > : Everyting went well until I was so stupid to use chpass to change my > : root password. I typed it unencrypted !! > : Consequently I cannot login as root anymore. > Hmm, I think you meant encrypted there... 8-) Nope, he typed the unencrypted password in the chpass editor at the field where one should put the encrypted one in. <:) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)