Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

[Mel]

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.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.