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Old 28th October 2008
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hi

I've installed freeBSD 7.1-BETA2-i386 on my notebook, but cannot login for the first time as root or even as a normal user.
what's wrong ? I never had this problem before.
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Old 28th October 2008
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wow, of course with that non-informative description we can tell EXACTLY what's happened!
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Old 28th October 2008
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I tried to reset root password:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-...-password.html

but getting this error:
Code:
passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module
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I tried to reset root password again and now it seems to work.
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