Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:43:50 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: yxpan@us.oracle.com (Yan Pan) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to reset the root password Message-ID: <3831f9a6.730684909@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <MAIL3831E9BF.8CA25BBF@us.oracle.com> References: <MAIL3831E9BF.8CA25BBF@us.oracle.com>
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On 16 Nov 1999 18:26:27 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >--------------653BA6A6A0055170CE4C2721 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I'd like to know how to reset the root password for FreeBSD v2.2.5 passwd root If you have forgotten it, then reboot into single user mode... If I recall correctly, at the boot prompt before the kernel gets loaded etc, type in -s for single user mode. Then when you get to a shell prompt, you must do a mount -u / mount /usr passwd root sync;shutdown -r now Its also in the FAQ. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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