From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 2 5:15:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.robhughes.com (12-237-138-77.client.attbi.com [12.237.138.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A50FA37B416 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 05:15:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4430 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2002 13:15:05 -0000 Received: from hexch01.robhughes.com (192.168.1.3) by ns2.robhughes.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2002 13:15:05 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Change password X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 07:14:01 -0600 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Change password Thread-Index: AcGTVplInjDNuugCSji5kY5CBDacngAOKqsA From: "Robert D. Hughes" To: , "questions" 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 login as root, passwd to re-establish a password. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Astill [mailto:bastill@sa.apana.org.au] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:31 AM To: questions Subject: Change password Problem: For reasons unknown, FBSD has stopped recognising my personal user=20 password. Root works OK, but obviously I can't sensibly work from=20 there. How can I change/delete that user password without knowing the password=20 that the system is storing? --=20 Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message