From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 10:28:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28017 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 10:28:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27979 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 10:28:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with UUCP id KAA06677; Tue, 5 May 1998 10:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA08837; Tue, 5 May 1998 10:26:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199805051726.KAA08837@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: root password forgotten In-Reply-To: from Oles Hnatkevych at "May 5, 98 02:21:34 pm" To: gnut@cki.ipri.kiev.ua (Oles Hnatkevych) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 10:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (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 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