From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 19:49:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from natsemi-bh.nsc.com (natsemi-bh.nsc.com [204.163.202.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3329A37B401 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 19:49:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by natsemi-bh.nsc.com (8.8.8/8.6.11) id TAA11100 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 19:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scnt-wsec1.nsc.com(139.187.1.16) by natsemi-bh.nsc.com via smap (4.1) id xmab10932; Wed, 15 May 02 19:48:38 -0700 Received: from 139.187.179.130 by MMS1 with ESMTP (-Hi- (MMS v4.7)); Wed, 15 May 2002 19:48:12 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: d6ddd4b6-ef0b-4485-8736-a314bd30aabc Received: from nsc.nsc.com by scmh1.nsc.com with ESMTP for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 May 2002 19:46:38 -0700 Received: from malkauns.malkauns.nsc.com (malkauns.nsc.com [139.187.83.131]) by nsc.nsc.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with SMTP id g4G2kWg27557 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 19:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from malkauns.nsc.com by malkauns.malkauns.nsc.com ( SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA13443; Thu, 16 May 2002 08:22:08 +0530 Message-ID: <3CE31E9D.F68718A7@malkauns.nsc.com> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 08:21:09 +0530 From: shubhamr Reply-To: shubhamr@malkauns.nsc.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: root password forgotten-locked up MIME-Version: 1.0 X-WSS-ID: 10FDC266570510-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hi, I forgot my root password.I had not created any other user too. so,I tried inserting the installation CD and went to the option root password in the configure menu.But when I enter there,it just stays intact and will not give me a screen to type in a new password.So I am unable to enter my system.Now the system is not allowing me to change my root password. how do I enter in?It does not even allow to create a new user also. Please help. Thanks in advance, shubha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message