From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 17 20:19:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08412 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:19:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08401 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:19:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul1.u.washington.edu (root@saul1.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.10]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id UAA39300; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:19:42 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul1.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id UAA23395; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:19:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:19:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Shane Reid cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password In-Reply-To: <001b01be4292$af752120$320c10ac@nebula> 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 Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Shane Reid wrote: >I hope one of you out there can help me with this. I was working on >configuring a box locally and it wasnt shutdown properly. When I moved it >to the new location I could not log in as root with the same password as >before and I was just working on it. Is there any way to change the root >password without knowing it? Any help would be appeciated. Thanks in >advance. Boot to single user mode by typing -s at the boot: prompt. The enter the 'passwd' command. Catchya Later, | Give me UNIX or give me a typewriter. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message