From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 27 11:17:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06364 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dialup.oar.net (dialup.oar.net [131.187.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06356 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from serega@bigfoot.com) Received: from ysi.com (ysi.ysi.com [192.153.37.2]) by dialup.oar.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06273; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:15:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from YSIMAIL/SpoolDir by ysi.com (Mercury 1.40); 27 Apr 98 14:19:50 -500 Received: from SpoolDir by YSIMAIL (Mercury 1.40); 27 Apr 98 14:19:28 -500 Received: from bigfoot.com (192.153.37.200) by ysi.com (Mercury 1.40) with ESMTP; 27 Apr 98 14:19:23 -500 Message-ID: <3544CB44.7A50D62F@bigfoot.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:15:33 -0400 From: Sergei Shayevich X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I forgot my root password!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! References: <3544AB4A.22F3@mhi-tx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Use "-s" option at the "boot: " prompt to go into a single user mode. That should allow you to change the root password Sergei Robert wrote: > I am an idiot!!! > I just changed my root password 2 weeks ago and I > cannot remember it... > does anyone have any suggestions.....anything > I really don't want to reinstall. > I have 2.2.5 > running apache 1.2.4 > no ftp service > popper for mail > named > multihomed > fwtk > Any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated... > thank you in advance > please E-mail as I am not currently subscribed. > thank you > Robert > > 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