From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 10 13:56:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00481 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:56:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00474 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16018; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <361FC9E8.E4CD86CF@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:56:08 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-1009 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jargo Liib CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lost passwords References: <001a01bdf483$21a693e0$120107d4@jargolii> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please fix your mailer so that it wraps lines at around 72 characters, and does not send out HTML-encoded mail. Otherwise your posts will simply be ignored by a large number of people. > Jargo Liib wrote: > > Hello gurus, > > I have a problem concerning one of my users -- the unfortunate fellow has forgot his password and asked me to look it up for him. Becouse I'm the root, I can do this but I don't know how. Can you please help me, please?? Actually in all likelihood you cannot retrieve someone's password. What you can do is blank out his pass using vipw. This will allow him to log in with no password and change it himself. You should only do this if you know that he will be logging in immediately to change it. The other option is to use passwd and change it for him. The man page will give you the details for vipw and passwd. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Go PADRES! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message