Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Pramod Dematagoda <pmd.lotr.gandalf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Pramod Dematagoda <pmd.lotr.gandalf@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0
To: "Mel" <fbsd.questions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "FreeBSD ML" <freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 11:09 AM
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:00 +0100, Mel wrote:
On Friday 31 October 2008 15:53:23 Pramod Dematagoda
wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 07:09 -0700, Jeremy
Chadwick wrote:
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.

Hey Jeremy,

Thanks for looking into the problem, but
unfortunately your solution did
not work, I changed the root password to
something else, however I still
cannot login to root once I boot FreeBSD
normally.

There should be in indication in /var/log/messages or
/var/log/auth.log.

I checked /var/log/messages, and I found something
interesting, it seems
that csh exits with signal 11(core dumped) right after a
root login,
there is nothing out of the ordinary in auth.log. But now
what do I do
to fix the problem, change the shell?

Yeowzers.
Change it to /bin/sh for now. Once you're back up, it'd be interesting to debug this. Would you like to?
- mdh




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