Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:01:31 -0500 From: "Kelly D. Grills" <kdgrills@the-grills.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Have screwed up my longin and password Message-ID: <20070315000131.GA87552@the-grills.com> In-Reply-To: <73B70035-8432-45A9-A5BE-FBB083C21C94@gmail.com> References: <73B70035-8432-45A9-A5BE-FBB083C21C94@gmail.com>
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--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:21:04PM -0500, Roger Scow wrote: >=20 > I am totally new to FreeBSD, and have installed it and Gnome2/X11. =20 > Somewhere in the process I have either corrupted or lost my password =20 > and user name access. When I try to log into Gnome, either as root =20 > or as username, it is a no go. >=20 > I know that I set up myself as a user, and set a root password when I =20 > was installing. >=20 > What do I do now? Can I restart from the install CD and go back into =20 > Sysinstall? >=20 You're not the first, see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT= -PW --=20 Kelly D. Grills kdgrills@the-grills.com --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: PGP key: mailto:kdgrills-pgpkey@the-grills.com iD8DBQFF+Izb7inS5LzF7HMRAn2tAJ9RgsXwWExXUvkm4gZeGhcFcOOhSACfe2lH 0I8GpO2X5tVYnuIt3pafCyE= =Bjo6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--
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