Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:34:45 -0500 (CDT) From: "Yong S. Yi" <ysyi@async.org> To: "Mr.Blue" <blue@niftynet.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I KILLED IT! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981017023153.30049A-100000@azazel.async.org> In-Reply-To: <fc.006ad2240017f6dd006ad2240017f6dd.17f6e6@niftynet.net>
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On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Mr.Blue wrote: >Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:46:03 +0000 >From: "Mr.Blue" <blue@niftynet.net> >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: I KILLED IT! > >To make a long story short I just changed my password and my root >password... then i lost the note book i wrote them down on.... i realized >this when it asked me for my login... so i hit the switch to boot in >single user mode thinking i could just change the root pass there then it >only mounted my root partition in read only mode... i tryed a boot floppy So make it rw: # mount -u / (assuming /etc is in the root partition) Then change the password, and you should be set. And oh, writing down passwords on a notebook is not a good idea. (I'll bet someone stole that notebook and changed your root password :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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