From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 1 22:26:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (apana.internode.on.net [150.101.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40F737B426 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 22:26:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from BAPhD.gihon.org.au (dialup-13.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.142]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17284 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:56:18 +1030 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "questions" Subject: Change password Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 17:01:24 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02010217012401.01096@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Problem: For reasons unknown, FBSD has stopped recognising my personal user password. Root works OK, but obviously I can't sensibly work from there. How can I change/delete that user password without knowing the password that the system is storing? -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message