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Date:      Thu, 6 May 2004 12:03:31 +0200
From:      Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Gregory Edigarov <greg@profi.kharkov.ua>
Subject:   Re: any way to recover root password on 5.2
Message-ID:  <200405061203.42971.4711@chello.at>
In-Reply-To: <20040506092818.GA10429@profi.kharkov.ua>
References:  <20040506092818.GA10429@profi.kharkov.ua>

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On Thursday 06 May 2004 11:28, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I forgot root pasword on my just installed server.
> I've tryed to recover it by going to single user, then doing
> mount -a; passwd root, but no success. It says "entropy device
> blocking. Dance fandago on keyboard to unlock".
> what can I do?

on newer 5.2-CURRENT systems type   =20
# /etc/rc.d/preeseedrandom

regards
ch

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