From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 7:58: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com (h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com [24.207.15.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F7837B400 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 07:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dccnet.com (kevine01.ugaloo.org [192.168.192.2]) by h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842C6288; Mon, 6 May 2002 07:58:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3CD699EF.4030205@dccnet.com> Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 07:57:51 -0700 From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020505 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arvids Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, toddpw@best.com Subject: Re: To change root password References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-4; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 I understand you are trying to change a system wide password. The answer should be found in passwd(1) manpage. arvids wrote: > Dear Sirs, > There is a lot of information on how to restore a lost root password, but I > need just to change root password. I need to protect the system from the > previous user. I have FreeBSD 4. I do a following thing: > type /usr > then > # passwd > > Changing local password for root. > New password: > Retype new password: > passwd: updating the database... > passwd: done > > after this dialog when I am asked to enter password for Charlie&root nothing > has changed. > I suppose I don't have to change a local password but some other. How to do > it? > Thank you in advance > > > 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