From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 22:45:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21170 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:45:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21155 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA17132; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:44:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:44:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: system@mail.haitang.com.cn cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: From XU In-Reply-To: <19980205.14480865@AccSMTP> 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 X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, 5 Feb 1998 system@mail.haitang.com.cn wrote: > HELLO, > I forget my FreeBsd server's root password,may I reboot my PC > from boot disk and change the root password. Sure: 1. At the Boot: prompt, type -s and press return 2. Press return when asked about a shell 3. Run the following commands: mount -u / mount -a 4. Run passwd to change root's password 5. Run exit to continue booting 6. Don't forget your root password anymore :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major