Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 10:26:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: gnut@cki.ipri.kiev.ua (Oles Hnatkevych) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root password forgotten Message-ID: <199805051726.KAA08837@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980505141505.13932A-100000@cki.ipri.kiev.ua> from Oles Hnatkevych at "May 5, 98 02:21:34 pm"
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According to Oles Hnatkevych: > Hello! > > I'm in deep trouble. We've forgotten root password, and the only > thing we have are boot floppy and fixit floppy. How we solve this? > I can mount harddrive partition, look at its /etc files, even > vi works ;-). > > Booting in single-user mode does not help coz root partition > is read-only. :-( > > Great thanks in advance! > > Bye! > After coming up in single-user mode, remount / by hand. Do `` mount / '' and proceed from that point. gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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