Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:19:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu> To: ninot@everex.com (Nino Tungul) Cc: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) Subject: Re: Password Message-ID: <199905122319.SAA05587@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990512160920.00a5fce0@mail.everex.com> from "Nino Tungul" at "May 12, 1999 4:12:38 pm"
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Hi, A few ideas: 1. If you haven't set the password to be used in a single-user mode (i.e. if you didn't set "insecure" for the console in /etc/ttys)- boot the computer into single-user mode (-s at the boot time ) mount the root partition (otherwise it is read-only) then the "FINAL" step below. 2. Boot from a floppy (e.g. install floppy, or may be fixit.flp), start a hologram shell. I think it should let you mount the root partition . then "FINAL" step below. 3. Install a minimum set of FreeBSD on a spare disc (binaries only), boot from it, and then mount the root partition of the "Main" installation. FINAL: edit /etc/master.passwd file, removing the password field from it for the root. Don't forget to run pwd-mkdb(8) after editing the /etc/master.passwd file. pwd-mkdb /path-to-mounted-partition/etc/master.passwd Hope that helps. Igor > Can somebody please help me. I forgot the super user password. how can i > possibly change it? dont want to reinstall again. > > thanks. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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