From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 14:29:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA02516 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:29:16 -0700 Received: from lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (lupine.nsi.nasa.gov [198.116.2.100]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA02509 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:29:12 -0700 Received: (from mnewell@localhost) by lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA00846; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 17:26:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 17:26:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael C. Newell" To: Luc Pelletier cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Root password In-Reply-To: <2125827.ensmtp@cmq.qc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, Luc Pelletier wrote: > I have forget my root password. What can I do to recover from that? > Is there some kind of trick? > I thought of making some special boot diskette in order to edit the password > file. > Will that work? How can I make this disquette? Try "-s" at the kernel boot prompt; that will put you in single user mode. You can then use the passwd command to fix the password. > P.S. Are you laughing as much as I feel stupid... :-) Nope. How do you think I found out about the -s flag???? :-)! Thanks, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ |Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein are | |NASA Science Internet Network Systems | my own, and do not necessarily | |Sterling Software, Inc. | reflect those of the NSI program, | |MNewell@nsipo.nasa.gov | Sterling Software, NASA, or anyone | |+1-202-434-8954 | else. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | work: http://www.eco.nsi.nasa.gov/~mnewell | | home: http://www.newell.arlington.va.us | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+