From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 20 08:37:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15496 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:37:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marlin.corp.gulf.net (calvin@marlin.corp.gulf.net [198.69.72.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15282 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 15:36:20 GMT (envelope-from calvin@marlin.corp.gulf.net) Received: from localhost (calvin@localhost) by marlin.corp.gulf.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA09990; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:31:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:31:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Calvin Meloon To: Curtis cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lost or Corrupted Root Password In-Reply-To: <353B5BCE.5B7F@kinn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Curtis wrote: > Is there anything that can be done, when after using the CHPASS command > on a user, the root password has been changed. I don't have a clue as > to how it happened. I was using it on another userid. Any help would > be appreciated. > > Curtis > Reboot into single-user mode. Mount the appropriate filesystems, then use passwd to change the password back to what you need. _____ __ _ / ___/__ _/ / __(_)__ Gulf Coast Internet Calvin M. Meloon / /__/ _ `/ / |/ / / _ \ Pensacola, FL Unix Administrator \___/\_,_/_/|___/_/_//_/ (850)438-5700 writer of code ~~~~ calvin@gulf.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Proponent of FreeBSD and the right of everyone to use a real OS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message