Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:54:52 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: John_Sconieres@ama-assn.org (John Sconiers) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, blue@niftynet.net Subject: Re: I KILLED IT! Message-ID: <199810191454.JAA20069@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <s62b0502.072@gwise.ama-assn.org> from John Sconiers at "Oct 19, 98 09:15:51 am"
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Boot single user mode then type:
mount / # mounts / rw
fsck /usr # to be sure
mount /usr
passwd root
reboot
In a previous message, John Sconiers said:
> get a boot floppy off of the net
>
> Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II
>
>
> >>> Mr.Blue <blue@niftynet.net> 10/16 9:46 PM >>>
> To make a long story short I just changed my password and my root
> password... then i lost the note book i wrote them down on.... i realized
> this when it asked me for my login... so i hit the switch to boot in
> single user mode thinking i could just change the root pass there then it
> only mounted my root partition in read only mode... i tryed a boot floppy
> but the only CD i have is for 2.2.5 and I'm running 2.2.6. can any one
> help!
>
> -Chris
>
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