Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 23:28:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: LPPelletier@cmq.qc.ca (Luc Pelletier) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Root password Message-ID: <199508152128.XAA24562@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <2125827.ensmtp@cmq.qc.ca> from "Luc Pelletier" at Aug 15, 95 05:10:29 pm
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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? If your console was not made secure, boot single user (with the '-s' option at the FreeBSD boot prompt). Then fsck -p all your disks, mount -a and passwd. -Guido
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