From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 7:12:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f114.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CDD37B718 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:12:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from burnscharlesn@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:12:08 -0800 Received: from 24.21.122.151 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:12:08 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.21.122.151] From: "Charles Burns" To: tanned7@hotmail.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I change my root password? Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:12:08 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Mar 2001 15:12:08.0738 (UTC) FILETIME=[F8D0B020:01C0ABCF] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This might work: Right about the time the kernel stops waiting for SCSI devices to settle (during the last fifth or so of boot up if you don't have any SCSI devices), hit CTRL-C several times. If you didn't mark your local TTY as insecure, you should be dropped to a question asking which shell you want to use. Once you are at the command prompt, type "passwd root". Charles Burns Note that I have never dropped to single user mode as is described here other than when my latest kernel decides to panic. I am not certain that these instructions will work for a working system. >From: "Shawn Cole" >To: >Subject: How do I change my root password? >Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 02:48:32 -0700 > >Help I forgot my password!!! >What do I do to change the root password when I restart my FreeBSD server? > >Thanks, Shawn > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message