Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:51:24 +0200 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Deji Ogunsanya <ayodejee@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Forgotten password Message-ID: <200906041351.25170.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> 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 Thursday 04 June 2009 13:32:27 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 > fsck -p /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal start > /sbin/mount / ^^^ strike that > /usr/bin/passwd ^^^ won't work if /usr seperate partition and isn't mounted ^^^ will work on root user, which OP doesn't state he lost the password for. /usr/bin/passwd -l username to change for a specific user. -- Mel
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