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- Sun Jul 30, 2017 2:41 pm
- Forum: General support
- Topic: Root and User Passwords Both Bolixed
- Replies: 3
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Re: Root and User Passwords Both Bolixed
ASX: thank you, that worked; I'm now responding from my Ghost BSD system. For the record, (and my motive here is to learn the correct way, not to defend my ego..~(;^})=..) Lehey's book, which is copyrighted 2003, states on page 148: "If you do manage to lose the root password, all may not be lo...
- Sat Jul 29, 2017 10:52 pm
- Forum: General support
- Topic: Root and User Passwords Both Bolixed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6289
Root and User Passwords Both Bolixed
Suddenly, neither my root nor standard user passwords will log me into Ghost BSD. I pulled out my copy of "The Complete FreeBSD" by Lehey, and based on what was suggested, booted into support mode and selected the bash shell. I then typed: mount -u mount -usr but got an error message about...
- Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:43 am
- Forum: General support
- Topic: CUPS Bunged Up on New Install
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8136
Re: CUPS Bunged Up on New Install
Thanks, finally got back in town after spending a week looking after grandkids. There is no PCL driver available in the Ghost BSD version of CUPS on my machine. There are Postscript and Gutenprint/Foomatic drivers; I reinstalled the printer with one of the Gutenprint drivers, and that fixed the prob...
- Mon Jul 10, 2017 10:14 pm
- Forum: General support
- Topic: CUPS Bunged Up on New Install
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8136
CUPS Bunged Up on New Install
Hi, I just installed GhostBSD 10.3/MATE after a long absence, and find that CUPS is not right. I have an HP Laserjet 2420DN installed on my network; the driver that the installer chose is the HP LaserJet 2420 Foomatic/Postscript. When i try to print either a test page or the one text line "The ...