From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 20 01:20:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA22340 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 01:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA22330 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 01:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA04398; Tue, 20 May 1997 10:18:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199705200818.KAA04398@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Question... In-Reply-To: <0003574D.1320@education.com> from "FKasumov@education.com" at "May 19, 97 03:38:22 pm" To: FKasumov@education.com Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:18:45 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi! > I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on my machine, but for some reasons > when I turn it on and try to run it, it asks me for a Login: and > Password:, though I haven't specified them. Is there a way to go > around it or do I have to reinstall the whole thing again? You have to boot into single user mode and change your root password. i. e. o reboot (by entering ALT-CTRL-DEL) o enter -s at the boot: prompt This will start a shell for you to work with w/o asking for a password o Now you have to mount your /usr filesystem: # mount /dev/wd0f /usr ^^^^^^^^^ Your spezial file might be different from this one. To find out do a # cat /etc/fstab o Change your password with # passwd root o Leave the shell to enter multi user mode # exit Hope this helps, Wolfgang