From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 09:42:18 2004 Return-Path: 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 F2F7216A4CE for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:42:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [12.15.124.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5B443D1F for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:42:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net (evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.46.162.188]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55926105 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:42:09 -0600 (CST) From: Chris To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:41:36 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040131173310.26489.qmail@web11005.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040131173310.26489.qmail@web11005.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401311141.49727.racerx@makeworld.com> Subject: Re: Root pwd and single user mode question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:42:18 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:33 am, Patrick Wilcox wrote: > I loaded FreeBSD on one of my old PCs a few years ago. > I wanted to start using it again, but I can't > remember what the root password was. I'm sure I used > the default, but I tried hitting enter and using > "password", "root", "r00t", "sysadmin", "admin" and a > few others to no avail. > > Can anyone tell me some others to try? > > Alternately, I tried logging into the box in > single-user mode to change it. However, when I got to > the boot: prompt and typed -s, it proceeded to do a > normal boot. A few things - there isn't a "default" root password. You either set it or = you=20 don't Nextly (grin) for single user mode to change the root password, look= =20 here. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT= =2DPW =2D --=20 Best regards, Chris =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBQBvaxA+T/4DAG8NjEQJfnwCeM37Jgb6X7o2vjdBeWc9CrXD69eoAoLwg h7PYXfgxNTTb8Bpd3OIllbpN =3DqJ+Y =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----