From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 15:42:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461B614BF2 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:42:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06858; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:35:51 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:35:51 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: paras dagli Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd login question In-Reply-To: <19990811222428.7524.rocketmail@web108.yahoomail.com> 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, 11 Aug 1999, paras dagli wrote: > Hello, > > I have a pc with freebsd installed at my house. I > haven't used it for about a year now, and I have > forgotten the password to login. is there anyway for > me to find out what that password is anyway for me to > login to the system? Boot up in single user. `mount -a' and change the root passwd. Jonathan Chen | "Vini, vidi, velcro... | I came, I saw, I stuck around" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message