From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 00:01:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E5E16A401 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:01:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdgrills@the-grills.com) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.200.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37FBB13C455 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:01:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdgrills@the-grills.com) Received: from srv2.the-grills.com (c-68-60-243-64.hsd1.il.comcast.net[68.60.243.64]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with SMTP id <2007031500015101100dbhp5e>; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:01:52 +0000 Received: (qmail 87587 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Mar 2007 00:01:31 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:01:31 -0500 From: "Kelly D. Grills" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070315000131.GA87552@the-grills.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <73B70035-8432-45A9-A5BE-FBB083C21C94@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <73B70035-8432-45A9-A5BE-FBB083C21C94@gmail.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE (i386) X-PGP-Key: mailto:kdgrills-pgpkey@the-grills.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Subject: Re: Have screwed up my longin and password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:01:53 -0000 --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:21:04PM -0500, Roger Scow wrote: >=20 > I am totally new to FreeBSD, and have installed it and Gnome2/X11. =20 > Somewhere in the process I have either corrupted or lost my password =20 > and user name access. When I try to log into Gnome, either as root =20 > or as username, it is a no go. >=20 > I know that I set up myself as a user, and set a root password when I =20 > was installing. >=20 > What do I do now? Can I restart from the install CD and go back into =20 > Sysinstall? >=20 You're not the first, see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT= -PW --=20 Kelly D. Grills kdgrills@the-grills.com --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: PGP key: mailto:kdgrills-pgpkey@the-grills.com iD8DBQFF+Izb7inS5LzF7HMRAn2tAJ9RgsXwWExXUvkm4gZeGhcFcOOhSACfe2lH 0I8GpO2X5tVYnuIt3pafCyE= =Bjo6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--