From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 19 7:49: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cithaeron.argolis.org (bgm-24-169-175-136.stny.rr.com [24.169.175.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2DE37B403 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:48:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from piechota@argolis.org) Received: from localhost (piechota@localhost) by cithaeron.argolis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5JEmoI35810; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:48:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from piechota@argolis.org) X-Authentication-Warning: cithaeron.argolis.org: piechota owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:48:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Piechota To: richard harris Cc: Subject: Re: single user In-Reply-To: <20010619085547.74733.qmail@web11906.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20010619104734.O31675-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, richard harris wrote: > in /etc/ttys:# > # This entry needed for asking password when init goes > to single-usermode > # If you want to be asked for password, change > "secure" to "insecure"here > console none unknown off > secure > > but unfortunaly right now i'm forget my root password, > so what can i do?????? Boot off of a FreeBSD CD/Floppy into rescue mode and mount up the partition. You can then edit /etc/master.passwd and such to fix root's password. -- Matt Piechota Finger piechota@emailempire.com for PGP key AOL IM: cithaeron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message