From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 14:58:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25923 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 14:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25815 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 21:57:55 GMT (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with UUCP id OAA03397; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 14:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id OAA08645; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 14:56:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199804142156.OAA08645@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: Reseting my root password In-Reply-To: <3533D936.7ED5FA1F@launchnet.com> from Justin Smith at "Apr 14, 98 02:46:30 pm" To: andrew_s@launchnet.com (Justin Smith) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 14:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Justin Smith: > I installed FreeBSD about two weeks ago, then I went on vacation, I > forgot to write down my passwords & now I don't know what to do, is > there any way I can reset my password from the log in prompt because > that's as far as I can get. > > All my system is used for is just to learn Unix & its based at home > Bring up your system is single-user mode; boot: -s And change your root password. You may have to remount some filesystems in order to do this. gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message