From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 7 22:28:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03522 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 22:28:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from endeavor.flash.net (endeavor.flash.net [209.30.0.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03516 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 22:28:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kishan@flash.net) Received: from flash.net (p94.sas5.dialup.lax1.flash.net [209.30.75.94]) by endeavor.flash.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA05633 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:27:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35F4C00C.D7EC2964@flash.net> Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 22:26:36 -0700 From: Kishan Barrett | Net-Pirate Reply-To: kishan@flash.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win98; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: wrong information on faq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello. I forgot my root pword. So i searched it up and i found this: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ132.html So i tryed it on my FreeBSD system. and it doesn't work. This is what happens 1. I type in -s at the boot: prompt 2. I see no question about the shell to use 3. Then it askes me the root password to login as single user -- C-YA!!!! Kishan Barrett | Net-Pirate | NPHQ netpirate@zwb.net http://nphq.cjb.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message