Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:08:43 -0700 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com> To: Chris Picton <Chris.Picton@usko.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hacking the root password Message-ID: <393E8FAB.CE961DF7@home.com> References: <393E5F09.263BF8B3@usko.com>
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Chris Picton wrote: > > 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. you can reboot in single user mode and do the same thing. raymundo > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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