From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 15 03:40:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA21970 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 03:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21915 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:40:15 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06260; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:40:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <35348E76.63DFB63D@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:39:50 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alex@mycity.it CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ROOT PASSWORD References: <3.0.32.19980415123041.011154d8@mycity.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need to boot the system in 'single-user' mode... When you get the 'Boot:' prompt enter '-s' and press return... The system will come up - and then prompt you "Enter pathname to shell, or enter for /bin/sh" (or similar) - press enter to shart a shell... Then do a 'mount -u /' and you should be able to then run the 'passwd' command to change the root password... I think this is documented somewhere on the FreeBSD web site? Regards, Karl Pielorz alex@mycity.it wrote: > > HI, > I have a problem, I changed my root password and I don't remember this > password. Can I create a "rescue diskette" as for Linux Slackware to enter > in my system and to delete the old password or I use the same boot diskette > in FreeBsd?? > Please answer me urgently. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message