From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 20 8:49:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B46D37BED4 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 08:49:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA03706; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:49:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:49:31 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Stefan Boy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I forgot the root password In-Reply-To: <20000220121046.51928.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG boot it standalone (when it boots up and stops with a prompt - instead of hitting enter - type -s and then enter) mount your drives in standalone (mount -a) you are then root in standalone with your drives mounted - so you can set a new password for yourself (just type passwd) On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Stefan Boy wrote: > Hi > > Iam using FreeBSD 3.2 > > And I have lost the paper where i writed the root password. > > I only got two users on the system, thats me, and my girlfriend. > > All the passwords was on the piece of paper I lost :\ > > How can I change the root password ? > > I dont got the boot disk. > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message