From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 8 17:20:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F8037B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:20:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from casper.sri.com (casper.SRI.COM [128.18.243.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C30CC43E42 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:20:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 12465 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2002 01:20:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO casper.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by casper.sri.com with SMTP; 9 Nov 2002 01:20:30 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by casper.SRI.COM (NAVGW 2.5.2.17) with SMTP id M2002110817202925201 ; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 17:20:29 -0800 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (axp.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.30]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gA91KTnr018724; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:20:30 -0800 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axp.csl.sri.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gA91KT1J046080; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:20:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200211090120.gA91KT1J046080@axp.csl.sri.com> To: Jerry McAllister Cc: pete@milneweb.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root password In-Reply-To: Message from Jerry McAllister of "Fri, 08 Nov 2002 20:10:24 EST." <200211090110.gA91AOm21150@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 17:20:29 -0800 From: Mike Hogsett Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > boot -s > -- wait for the boot -- > fsck -a > mount -u / > mount -a Better here would be : mount -a -t ufs in case there are NFS mounts in the fstab. > swapon -a > passwd root > follow the prompts To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message