From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 08:56:16 2003 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 173A537B404 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:56:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6B143FDF for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:56:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h3LFuDwl002225; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:56:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EA4149D.3080502@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:56:13 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: none none References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password reset 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: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:56:16 -0000 none none wrote: > I had a server which I haven't used in about a year, with data on it > that I'd like to access. Unforunately I forgot the root password. I've > tried the "boot -s" option but once it finishes booting it displays > "enter root password or ^D for multiuser access". (Not bypassing the > root password... I have physical access to the machine. How can I reset > or recover the password? Your console is obviously marked as "secure". You'll have to boot off a fixit floppy or CD (such as FreeSBIE), then edit the password file to change root's password and run pwd_mkdb. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com