Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:44:58 +0100 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> To: Patrick Wilcox <patwx@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root pwd and single user mode question Message-ID: <200401311845.08277@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <20040131173310.26489.qmail@web11005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040131173310.26489.qmail@web11005.mail.yahoo.com>
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--Boundary-02=_jm+GANuvTSyARZ/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 31 January 2004 18:33, 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. You have to type "boot -s". > > I'm not exactly sure which verion I have, but the book > was The complete FreeBSD 3rd edition and the CDs are > dated June 2000. I'd say 3.3 or 3.4. But that doesn't matter. -Harry > > Any tips would be most appreciated, > Pat Wilcox > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --Boundary-02=_jm+GANuvTSyARZ/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAG+mjBylq0S4AzzwRAvfPAJ9aUrSTHwZF6f4EW/E0l8ut8asR0ACgil0g 75B0r43bSIfiqcrRRAGeVww= =KBlF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_jm+GANuvTSyARZ/--
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