Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 05:00:50 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Rob Garbutt <rob@webstyleinternet.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root password recovery Message-ID: <20060529190050.GA980@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <003901c68348$27afbb70$0202a8c0@bmbpc733> References: <003901c68348$27afbb70$0202a8c0@bmbpc733>
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I'm not sure how this is a hardware problem. On Mon, 2006-May-29 18:48:54 +0100, Rob Garbutt wrote: >Can anyone point me in the right direction of either recovering/resetting >the root password (console or through bash) or fixing the above error? Assuming you have the console marked "secure" in /etc/ttys, you can just boot to single-user. This will give you a root shell: - boot single user # mount -a # passwd -- Peter Jeremy
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