On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:20:47AM -0700 or thereabouts, Dave Banning wrote: > All of a sudden, I can't login, even as root. I tried to set the > password of root to nil (because I happened to be logged in as root at > the time) and that didn't work either. > > Then, thinking that the machine was acting up, I rebooted. Now I am in > deeper. I can't even access the machine. > > Any idea why this would happen, or more important, how I can get out?
Ctrl+Alt+Del [if you get the fancy menu, choose "boot in single-user mode"; otherwise...] Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... <press space> OK boot -s [ ... ] use /bin/sh fsck -p mount -a ktrace -o /root/login.out login root Password: <type your root password> Login failed <press Ctrl+C> kdump /root/login.out | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s "Re: can't login as anyone - not even as root!" Note: my syntax for kdump/ktrace may be a bit off, see their man pages. -- Josh > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
