From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 24 21: 4:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cytosine.dhs.org (cx272244-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.177.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927EF37BC32 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:04:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org) Received: (from bhishan@localhost) by cytosine.dhs.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e3P44gJ55847; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:04:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhishan Hemrajani Message-Id: <200004250404.e3P44gJ55847@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Re: Passwd In-Reply-To: <002901bfae68$4ef0d0e0$6b37e6c8@ursa> from "Robledo R. Aloisio" at "Apr 25, 2000 00:42:40 am" To: "Robledo R. Aloisio" Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:04:42 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Restart, enter into single user mode. (Hit a different key then enter at the waiting part, and enter: boot -s ) Mount file systems, something like this: # /sbin/mount / # /sbin/mount /usr etc... then: # vipw change the root password field to nothing: root:: etc. set the root password: # passwd root Then, restart. --bhishan [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I know it is a silly mistake but i was making some experiments with passwd and chpass and i lost root_s password. And I don_t have another superuser. Please some one, how do I clean up or change the root_s password to enter the system again as root ? > > Thank you a lot > All the Best > robledo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message