On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:59:04PM +0530, Pramod Dematagoda wrote: > But now I've faced a big problem, I can no longer seem to login to the > root account where whenever I supply the proper credentials to the login > screen, I always get thrown back to the login screen. This started > happening after I installed D-bus and HAL through the FreeBSD ports > which were built upon Xorg 1.5.1 which I had built myself previously, so > I am wondering if something I did may have caused the problem.
Reboot the machine and at the FreeBSD beastie/loader menu, hit "4" to boot into single-user mode. Once there, do: # mount -a # mount -o rw -u / # passwd root And change the password. "reboot" and you should be good to go. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"