From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 8:11:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.uskonet.com (mail.uskonet.com [196.3.164.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE9E37B5D0 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 08:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Chris.Picton@usko.com) Received: from zero.gia.co.za (hal9000.uskonet.com [196.3.167.186]) by mail.uskonet.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA20014 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:11:19 +0200 (GMT) Received: from usko.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zero.gia.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E6152FF5 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:41:16 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <393E5F09.263BF8B3@usko.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 16:41:13 +0200 From: Chris Picton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hacking the root password Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I have just taken over the administration of some unix systems. There is a machine, running as a secondary name server on FreeBSD for which no record of the root password has been stored, so I can't log in to the box. If it was a linux machine, I would boot off a floppy with init=/bin/bash and manually change the root password. However, I have never used FreeBSD before. How would I go about getting/changing the root password for this machine. Regards -- Chris Picton Usko Communications Systems Developer Chris.Picton@usko.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message