From owner-freebsd-small Thu Oct 4 18:42:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E2237B403 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:42:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amy (216-99-218-147.dsl.aracnet.com [216.99.218.147]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f951g6v29776; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:42:06 -0700 Message-ID: <00c501c14d3e$f022ad00$0200a8c0@longs> From: "Paul W Long" To: "Luigi Rizzo" Cc: References: <200110042113.f94LDmU46526@iguana.aciri.org> Subject: Re: root password Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:40:42 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I understand that the default root password for the bridge build is setup > > and that I should change it by editing > > /usr/src/release/picobsd/bridge/floppy.tree/etc/master.passwd. But what I > > don't know is, and my newbie-ness is really showing here, how does one edit > > master.passwd? I tried pw -V > > /usr/src/release/picobsd/bridge/floppy.tree/etc/ useradd -n root -u 0 -d > > /root -w random Will this do the trick? Pointers? Appropriate man pages? > > Regards, > > the easiest way is to update the entry in the default master.passwd with a > line from your master.passwd > > luigi Of course. Thanks -pwl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message