From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 8 10:46:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.runbox.com (pluto2.runbox.com [193.71.199.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F23237B423 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 10:46:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from teguh-k@runbox.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1] helo=runbox.com) by pluto.runbox.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #2) id 14mJDW-0000g0-00; Sun, 08 Apr 2001 19:43:14 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Teguh Kurniawan" To: seyon@stanford.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:Forgot Root Password Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 17:43:14 GMT X-Mailer: RMM Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Reboot your FreeBSD box, and when your FreeBSD Bootstrap Loader start to co= unting down from 9 to 1 before continue to loading kernel, press Spacebar. and then type "boot -s". That means you enter FreeBSD box at single mode.= =20 when kernel ask for shell, just type Enter. and change your root password with passwd. Regards, Teguh > I installed FreeBSD 4.0 and have since forgotten the root password. > Is there a way to bypass/restore the root password from the console, plea= se > help! ----------------------------------------------- Runbox Mail Manager - www.runbox.com Free online email application To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message