From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 16:40:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F04151AB for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:39:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.024 #3) id 11HZia-000Dwz-00; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:27:28 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.024 #3) id 11HZiZ-0003fN-00; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:27:27 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:27:27 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Ray Grieselhuber Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root Password Message-ID: <19990819222727.C12658@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <37BBFB5F.B7036C2D@londonind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <37BBFB5F.B7036C2D@londonind.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ray Grieselhuber wrote: > I tried to log on to my system, and it said login incorrect. But I know > I was using the right password, so I don't understand the problem. How > do I change the password without being logged in, or how do I get past > this? Were you logging in on the console? You cannot log in as root over telnet, for example. Either you weren't on the console, or you got the password wrong. > The FAQ said to do this from the Boot: command, but how do I get > to this if I can't log on? Reboot by pressing ctrl-alt-del on the console. When it's coming back up, you should get a boot prompt. This allows you to specify a kernel to boot from, and flags to give to it. Just type `-s', and the system should give you a single-user root prompt. Just type `passwd root' to set root's password. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message