Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:56:33 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net> Cc: sathyanarayana <sathyan@india.hp.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <rajeshsb@india.hp.com>, <raghuhr@india.hp.com> Subject: Re: I have forgotten the root password Message-ID: <20011016145457.R755-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <200110171502.f9HF2bi58423@ashram.rhavenn.net>
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Henrik Hudson wrote: > Boot into single user mode( boot -s at the boot prompt), if your console > here is password protected then Step 2. > > Step 2: Grab a boot disk, load the kernel on the floppy. Mount the / > partition of your harddrive Sorry for interfering: How do you do this? Can you use the emegency-shell? Uli. > and edit the master.passwd file by hand (make it > blank). Boot into single user mode and the password should be blank. Use > passwd to change it to whatever. > > Hope that helps. > > Henrik > > On Tuesday 16 October 2001 08:44, sathyanarayana wrote: > > Hi Experts, > > > > > > How to break the root password of FREEBSD M/C. > > Your Help highly appreciated. > > > > > > Regards, > > satya. > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > > Henrik Hudson > lists@rhavenn.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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