From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 16 7:56:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from felix.cheetahusa.net (felix.cheetahusa.net [216.133.11.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFF9337B40A for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 07:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cheetahusa.net (falcon.cheetahusa.net [192.168.10.139]) by felix.cheetahusa.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4GEu7001828; Thu, 16 May 2002 07:56:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig@cheetahusa.net) Message-ID: <3CE3C99C.6040904@cheetahusa.net> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 08:00:44 -0700 From: Craig User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shubhamr@malkauns.nsc.com Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: root password forgotten-locked up References: <3CE31E9D.F68718A7@malkauns.nsc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG shubhamr wrote: > Hi, > I forgot my root password.I had not created any other user too. > so,I tried inserting the installation CD and went to the option root > password in the configure menu.But when I enter there,it just stays > intact and will not give me a screen to type in a new password.So I am > unable to enter my system.Now the system is not allowing me to change my > root password. > > how do I enter in?It does not even allow to create a new user also. > Please help. > Thanks in advance, > shubha You will find the answer in the FAQ which is, not coincidentally, on the FreeBSD web site. It's in the "system admin" section, section 10.14 which is "I have forgotten the root password! What do I do?" ... here's a direct link: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message