Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:58:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Herdman <apollo@io.org> To: AAU System Operator <sysop@aau.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lost root password... please help Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950802135623.17748B-100000@trepan.io.org> In-Reply-To: <m0sdhiF-000CPsC@kudu.ru.ac.za>
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On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, AAU System Operator wrote: > Dear Friends at FreeBSD.ORG: > > We have been running a DOS-based UUCP facility (UUPC/extended) for dial- > up e-mail access for a year and a half now, and are all set to upgrade to > a full FreeBSD Unix based system in the next week. > > Unfortunately for us (and me, especially) after receiving much help from > some friends in South Africa in setting up FreeBSD 2.0.5, and almost > getting set to link the FreeBSD server on the same ethernet to our NetWare > 3.12 fileserver, I forgot my ROOT user password! Very silly of me, at > least I should have written it down somewhere, but I thought I knew it so > off-hand. But I think I forgot because I have been working lately on > setting up the Mercury SMTP mail transport system on the Novell server > (where I have a different Supervisor's passwd) and have not come near the > FreeBSD server for a couple of days now. > > Now I need to make some changes on certain crucial files (accessible only > to root) on the BSD to make Mercury recognize and pass mail to it from the > Novell server and, poor me, I cannot remember my password anymore!!! > > Please help. I am a novice on Unix and this is my first time at working > at it, but I am ambitious and have some excellent O'reilly books to get me > off to a good start, so I'll be happy to try any instruction you may have > for me. When booting the freebsd machine, it waits for a bit before it loads the kernel. Type /kernel -s which will boot you in single user mode (no passwords) then type 'passwd root' to change the root password. Andrew
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