From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 17 19:20:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13455 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 19:20:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from healy.dpac.tas.gov.au ([147.109.254.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13449 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 19:20:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from C.Nairn@dpac.tas.gov.au) Received: from pc0123 (pc0123.dpac.tas.gov.au [147.109.150.123]) by healy.dpac.tas.gov.au (8.8.7/DPACV8) with SMTP id MAA12809; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:18:16 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199808180218.MAA12809@healy.dpac.tas.gov.au> X-Sender: cpn@mailroom.dpac.tas.gov.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:19:29 +1000 To: "Ken Blundell" , From: Carey Nairn Subject: Re: HELP - HELP - Lost Root Password In-Reply-To: <01bdca26$54c4e600$0667eccf@hermes.osicom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When you boot to single user mode you need to CHANGE the root password.  Removing the password from the passwd file isn't enough as the password database needs to be rebuilt.

cheers,
Carey Nairn

At 17:31 17/08/98 -0400, Ken Blundell wrote:
Please can anybody help me......
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We've lost the password for root access to our FreeBSD box.
We're running FBSD 2.2.2=A0
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I've tried booting into single user mode (-s) and mounting my drive so it's read-write (mount /dev/sd0a)
I then removed edited the the file /etc/master.passwd and removed the encrypted passwd from the root entry.=A0 At the console now when I press the enter key for the password, all it says is Login incorrect.....????=A0
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We need to get into the system, can anybody help......
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You can call toll free at 1-888-361-4649=A0

Thanks in advance ....... anybody!!!!=A0
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