From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 00:37:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09324 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:37:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from azazel.async.org (hun-al1-02.ix.netcom.com [205.184.6.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09313 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:36:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ysyi@async.org) Received: from localhost (ysyi@localhost) by azazel.async.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with SMTP id CAA30061; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:34:45 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:34:45 -0500 (CDT) From: "Yong S. Yi" To: "Mr.Blue" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I KILLED IT! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Mr.Blue wrote: >Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:46:03 +0000 >From: "Mr.Blue" >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