Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 04:37:51 -0700 From: Joseph Olatt <joji@eskimo.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Deji Ogunsanya <ayodejee@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Forgotten password Message-ID: <20090604113751.GA10204@shell.eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906041331410.32705@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <918477.18876.qm@web110706.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906041331410.32705@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:32:27PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >Good day am a new user of of freebsd Os and i forgot my login password, i > >will need an assitance on how to get it changed. > boot, press 4 at boot loader prompt to get single user. > > after seeing a guestion what to run as a shell (/bin/sh as default) press > enter. > > then > > /sbin/mount / > /usr/bin/passwd Without any arguments, the password for root will probably get changed. If the user wants to change his/her personal account passwd, then: /usr/bin/passwd <login> > change password > > then press CTRL-D > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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