From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 22:55:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA26449 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:55:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26321 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA19026; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:54:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Aaron Jeremias Luz cc: FAQ@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with question 8.20 (Eek! I forgot the root password!) In-Reply-To: <19980624224034.11799@homenet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Aaron Jeremias Luz wrote: > Greetings FreeBSD team, > > The answer for question 8.20, "Eek! I forgot the root password," > fails to work because passwd lives on /usr which may not be mounted. > /usr may be mounted if dropping into single user mode from multiuser > mode, but most people who forget the root password realize so only > after a power cycle. That's right. I left out a `mount -a' before using `passwd'. Thanks for pointing it out. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message