From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 19:25:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp1fb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2B637B403 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:25:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (apparently) from equinox ([24.168.44.136]) by nyc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:52:17 -0400 Message-ID: <000701c140ad$c28aa2f0$9865fea9@equinox> From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: "Chia-Chung Tsay" , References: Subject: Re: Need help: root password recovery.. Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:52:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Chia, You can try and drop into single-user mode and change the root password that way. Other than breaking into your own system, there really is no other way if you've forgotten the password. -- Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chia-Chung Tsay" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:54 PM Subject: Need help: root password recovery.. > Can anyone tell me how to recover the root password > on the FreeBSD? > > Thanks! > R. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message