From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 09:45:31 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 24A6F16A4CE for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:45:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-in.m-online.net (mail-in.m-online.net [62.245.150.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5582343D6D for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from h@schmalzbauer.de) Received: from mail.m-online.net (svr14.m-online.net [192.168.3.144]) by svr8.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033E71E9FD; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:45:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de (ppp-62-245-162-166.mnet-online.de [62.245.162.166]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0FD413D7; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:45:08 +0100 (CET) From: Harald Schmalzbauer To: Patrick Wilcox , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:44:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040131173310.26489.qmail@web11005.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040131173310.26489.qmail@web11005.mail.yahoo.com> X-Birthday: 06 Oktober 1972 X-Name: Harald Schmalzbauer X-Phone1: +49 (0) 163 555 3237 X-Phone2: +49 (0) 89 18947781 X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-Country: Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_jm+GANuvTSyARZ/"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200401311845.08277@harrymail> 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 17:45:31 -0000 --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/--