From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 9 13:48:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12437 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dax.belen.k12.nm.us (dax.belen.k12.nm.us [206.206.121.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12401 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:47:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wildcard@dax.belen.k12.nm.us) Received: from localhost (wildcard@localhost) by dax.belen.k12.nm.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA17015; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:51:40 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wildcard@dax.belen.k12.nm.us) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:51:39 -0700 (MST) From: wildcardus freakis Reply-To: wildcardus freakis To: Adam Simpson cc: admin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root password In-Reply-To: <199902092118.PAA03635@littlerapids.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you also have to mount the partitions that are in the fstab file, when you reboot into single user mode everything is read-only issuing the command: mount -a will successfully remount all your partitions as you have them specified in fstab. Ta- Sasha On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Adam Simpson wrote: > reboot in single user mode and then issue the passwd command. > > > At 01:13 PM 2/9/99 -0800, you wrote: > >If you lose the root password (as in crash the database) how do you > >recover? > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message