From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 29 11:34:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hex.databits.net (hex.databits.net [207.29.192.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACC9F37B718 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:34:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from petef@hex.databits.net) Received: (qmail 36364 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Mar 2001 19:34:21 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:34:21 -0500 From: Pete Fritchman To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joachim_Str=F6mbergson?= Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Report from testrun of 4.3 RC1 (first try) Message-ID: <20010329143421.A35641@databits.net> References: <3AC389D5.87284DA3@ludd.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AC389D5.87284DA3@ludd.luth.se>; from watchman@ludd.luth.se on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:15:33PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ++ 29/03/01 21:15 +0200 - Joachim Strömbergson: > >[3] What is the default root password? Documented where? > I'm not sure it's documented anywhere, but it looks like the default root password is empty. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/master.passwd?rev=1.25&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=RELENG_4 Once this file is installed onto your new system, install simply runs "passwd" (and it doesn't ask you for root's "Old Password" because it's empty), and you enter your new root password. -pete -- Pete Fritchman Databits Network Services, Inc. finger petef@databits.net for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message