Jeremy,
Nailed it on the head. I had forgotten that a few weeks ago I was messing
around with that file.
I changed this line:
ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on insecure
to this:
ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure
And now I am able to login to root from the console.
Thanks for the quick help! I should've remembered that.
-Walt
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Jeremy Johnston
jer...@stormy.smart-serv.net wrote:
On 08/31/2012 03:37 PM, Walt Elam wrote:
I recently *accidentally* removed myself from the wheel group, so I was no
longer able to use su to root. To fix it, I hooked up a monitor and
keyboard to my FreeBSD 8.2 box so I could login as root, but it kept
rejecting my password. I restarted the machine in single-user mode, did
the
following:
mount -u /
mount -a
passwd
exit
So it booted back in to multi-user mode. Once again, I tried to login as
root, but got the same Login incorrect message. Puzzled, I repeated the
previous steps using the password pass this time. However, I went ahead
and added my user account to the wheel group while in single-user mode.
Once in multi-user mode again, I still got Login incorrect
(specifically,
pam_acct_mgmt(): authentication error) when logging in as root. I SSH'd to
the machine as my regular user, typed su, and entered pass which worked
just fine.
So, I have absolutely no clue why I am unable to login to my machine, on
the console, as root with pass, but it works when using su from a
regular
user account. I tried searching around but almost all of the hits are
about
resetting the root password in single-user mode. Does any one know what
I'm
doing incorrectly?
Thanks for any help in advance,
-Walt
The only thing that comes to mind would be to check /etc/ttys and see if
the console ttys are set to insecure, which would prevent root login.
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