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:
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
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
