Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:42:28 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: "Shane Reid" <nebula@accesscomm.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Password Message-ID: <19990118044309.VTCJ678125.mta2-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <001b01be4292$af752120$320c10ac@nebula>
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On 17 Jan 99, at 21:28, 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. I found the answer at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ135.html ### Don't Panic! Simply restart the system, type -s at the Boot: prompt to enter Single User mode. At the question about the shell to use, hit ENTER. You'll be dropped to a # prompt. Enter mount -u / to remount your root filesystem read/write, then run mount -a to remount all the filesystems. Run passwd root to change the root password then run exit to continue booting. ### -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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