From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 19: 6:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D28737B411 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8J260B22586; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:06:00 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:06:00 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Lee Mark Mercado Cc: Subject: Re: root password In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010918160527.V34905-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Lee Mark Mercado wrote: > how could i retrieve a root password ? You can't retrieve it. The best you can do is boot into single user mode and then change it. See the link below: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message