Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 20:04:53 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Graffam <mgraffam@mhv.net> To: grcuerrier <grcuerrier@cnwl.igs.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lost root password Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95q.971223200336.9987B-100000@spice.mhv.net> In-Reply-To: <199712240043.TAA02258@host.cnwl.igs.net>
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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, grcuerrier wrote: > Strange question I know. I thought possibly there would be a way upon > power up. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. And, come to think of it.. you could boot with a FreeBSD boot disk, manually mount your root partition on say, /mnt and then use an editor to delete the password entry. But this isnt nearly as fun :) Michael Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net) http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam - Religion, Philosophy, Computers, etc
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