Root password not responding

[Remko Lodder]

Hit him, perhaps he responds then :-)

No Serious, it could mean a lot of things,
did you try just entering from the login prompt?

Login: root
Password: <Hit enter here>

You might accidently changed it, someone might have changed it, it was 
unset, you were toying with vipw, and dozens options more ;-)

Perhaps you should boot into single user mode, remount the / (readwrite) 
and use passwd root

BTW: Where are you seeing this message? Remote ROOT logins are denied by 
default..

Cheers

tamx5 at iastate.edu wrote:

> Alright I have recently installed BSD onto my 
> computer as one of the OS systems to dual boot.  
> However, recently the root usner name and password, 
> when entered correctly or incorrectly, does not 
> login.  It gives me the message of Incorrect password 
> or usnername.  Why has this suddenly started 
> occurring and how do I fix this?
> Thanks
> Costomer
> 
> 
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