From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 11:03:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA21122 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 11:03:24 -0700 Received: from io.org (io.org [142.77.70.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA21115 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 11:03:20 -0700 Received: from trepan.io.org (apollo@trepan.io.org [198.133.36.8]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA10497; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:58:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:58:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Herdman To: AAU System Operator cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lost root password... please help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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