From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 14:13:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA09213 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:13:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA09206 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA11767; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:10:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Jesse cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help! I forgot to set my password!!!! In-Reply-To: <199608071758.KAA07726@m4.sprynet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Jesse wrote: > HELP!!! when I installed freeBSD v2.1.5, I forgot to set the root > password! Could you please tell me the default password so I can get > into my system? The default user (to whom you probably didn't give a password) is root. But before you do this you might want to look at the guide for users new to both FreeBSD *and* Unix at http://www.freebsd.org -- follow the links to documentation and then tutorials. It's also available at http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/newuser.html (where it's a single document, instead of being divided up and linked); or I can send you a copy by e-mail if you like. It doesn't deal with installation at all--but rather with what you do once you get it installed! Hope it helps. Annelise