From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 09:57:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28722 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:57:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28685 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:57:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA16471; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:56:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:56:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dan Rainey cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <66DB0D816614D111BB19080009DC3A09014ADA@challenger.grtk.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Dan Rainey wrote: > We have a FreeBSD system running TIS Toolkit Firewall Software. It is > only acting as an FTP Server right now. The problem is no one can > remember the root password. Any suggestions short of rebuilding the > server or calling my psychic Friend? . Run `shutdown' or boot with `-s' on the Boot: prompt to get to Single User Mode. . Run `mount -u /' then `mount -a' to get your filesystems back. . Run `passwd' to change the root password. . Run `exit' to continue with system startup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major