From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 4:51:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swansea.cableinet.net (swansea.cableinet.net [194.117.142.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2B537B41C for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 04:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by swansea.cableinet.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1534D228324; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:50:57 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:50:57 +0100 From: Burhan Nazir To: Martins Struka Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Root problem & Passwords Message-ID: <20020409115057.GA52813@swansea.cableinet.net> References: <004701c1dfa3$9f538a00$0501a8c0@Bastion> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004701c1dfa3$9f538a00$0501a8c0@Bastion> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Martins Struka wrote: > Dear Sir / Madam, > > Our companys e-mail server is runing on FreeBSD. I need to add new > accounts and edit exsisting accounts. > > 1. What can I do if the superuser root password is missing and the > second added user password is not known also? > > 2. Is it possible to reinstal FreeBSD not loosing current > configuration and data? > > What can I do? I am desperate!! Please help me! > If you do not know the root password, you do not need to re-install to get your password back. Read the following, this will show you what to do. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW -Burhan -- FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE | http://www.freebsd.org 12:45PM up 81 days, 20:46, 13 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.14, 0.06 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message