From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 7:42:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ashram.rhavenn.net (ashram.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65E037B401 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 07:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (gandalf.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.51]) by ashram.rhavenn.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9HF2bi58423; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:02:37 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200110171502.f9HF2bi58423@ashram.rhavenn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Henrik Hudson Reply-To: lists@rhavenn.net To: sathyanarayana , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I have forgotten the root password Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:54:16 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: rajeshsb@india.hp.com, raghuhr@india.hp.com References: <3BCC39B6.752F6D39@india.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <3BCC39B6.752F6D39@india.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Boot into single user mode( boot -s at the boot prompt), if your console here is password protected then Step 2. Step 2: Grab a boot disk, load the kernel on the floppy. Mount the / partition of your harddrive and edit the master.passwd file by hand (make it blank). Boot into single user mode and the password should be blank. Use passwd to change it to whatever. Hope that helps. Henrik On Tuesday 16 October 2001 08:44, sathyanarayana wrote: > Hi Experts, > > > How to break the root password of FREEBSD M/C. > Your Help highly appreciated. > > > Regards, > satya. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Henrik Hudson lists@rhavenn.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message