From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 08:17:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10450 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 08:17:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua (grad-UTC-28k8.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10403 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 08:16:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua) Received: from Shevchenko.kiev.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA20657; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 20:13:53 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <34D8AFDB.955D52D6@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 20:13:48 +0200 From: Ruslan Shevchenko X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: system@mail.haitang.com.cn CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root password References: <19980205.14500861@AccSMTP> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" system@mail.haitang.com.cn wrote: > Hi, > May I reboot system from boot disk and change root password, if I forgot > my root password. > why from boot disk ? You can boot it in single-user mode (boot -s) i.e. on boot: -s then run mount -u then passwd root > Sincerely > XU > 02/05/98 > system@mail.haitang.com.cn -- @= //RSSH mailto://Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA