From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 02:03:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD0C37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 02:03:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9DCA43FA3 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 02:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barner@in.tum.de) Received: from mailrelay1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mailrelay1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.254.5]) by mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BFF26425; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:03:18 +0200 (MEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09621F59; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:03:33 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mailrelay1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailrelay1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 24535-10; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:03:33 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mail.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mail.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.26]) by mailrelay1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B83BC1EC0; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:03:33 +0200 (MEST) Received: from zi025.glhnet.mhn.de (unknown [129.187.19.157]) by mail.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FA38D; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:03:33 +0200 (MEST) Received: by zi025.glhnet.mhn.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B0EF436A3C; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:03:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:03:32 +0200 From: Simon Barner To: Simon-Pierre Butsana Message-ID: <20030604090332.GA480@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <006201c32a76$e3990630$a86fa8c0@SPBUTSANA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006201c32a76$e3990630$a86fa8c0@SPBUTSANA> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at informatik.tu-muenchen.de cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I recover the password for root in FreeBSD 4.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:03:36 -0000 --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, > I changed yesterday the password for root on my server because I found it= too simple. Unfortunately I didn't write it and now I just can't remind it= =2E I still have access to an account belonging to the wheel group. Is ther= e any means to recover or to set a new password for root? > I would appreciate any help on this. > many thanks, >=20 If you have access to the console, this should do the trick: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT= -PW Simon --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+3bXkCkn+/eutqCoRAtJaAKDTFLvsZMAN8RH8ckgwJUDcyZoPagCfUJfN Ulzn4LcNVu8YHDpZnOoblNM= =kdxp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd--