From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 14:56:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF0637B6B1 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 14:56:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [38.38.130.63] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id ACBC34800D8; Tue, 02 May 2000 17:46:36 -0400 Message-ID: <390F4ED6.D49BEC40@picusnet.com> Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 17:55:34 -0400 From: William Freeman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Smart Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: forgotten root passwd References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG And, you can't just do: # rm /.zshrc why? Matthew Smart wrote: > > I have a problem similar to a forgotten root > password, and I've been trying to figure out > how to put my FreeBSD box into single-user mode. > > I accidentally created a .zshrc for root with > the single line "alias g `gvim`" so when I try > to log in as root w/o X running I get: > cannot open displayVim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal > and I can't kill the process. > > I'd like to simply delete .zshrc. Thanks. > > mattSMART > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- William D. Freeman (wfreeman@picusnet.com) http://memebers.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GG d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E--- W++ N-- o-- K- w--- O---- M-- V-- PS--- PE+++ Y- PGP---- t+++ 5-- X+++ R* tv++ b+ DI++++ D---- G- e-- h! r++ !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message