From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 8 11: 6:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gelemna.org (cc466188-a.pinev1.in.home.com [24.17.49.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F118637B422 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 11:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.org) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by gelemna.org (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f38I60Q38535; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:06:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.org) To: Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Forgot Root Password References: From: Don Croyle Date: 08 Apr 2001 13:06:00 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: "Seyon Verdtzabella"'s message of "Sun, 8 Apr 2001 10:28:26 -0700" Message-ID: <86n19rclmf.fsf@emerson.gelemna.org> Lines: 13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Seyon Verdtzabella" writes: > 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, please > help! Ctrl-Alt-Del from the console should result in a clean shutdown and reboot. Boot single user (interrupt the countdown to the kernel boot, 'set boot_single' and 'boot'), remount / rw, mount /usr and use passwd to enter a new password for root. -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message