From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 11 11:43:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23123 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 11:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23110 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 11:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (pm02-02.aei.ca [206.123.6.127]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA08163; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 14:42:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3620FBFF.518E8102@aei.ca> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 14:42:07 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jargo Liib CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: References: <001a01bdf483$21a693e0$120107d4@jargolii> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Jargo Liib wrote: > > Hello gurus, > > I have a problem concerning one of my users -- the unfortunate > fellow has forgot his password and asked me to look it up for him. > Becouse I'm the root, I can do this but I don't know how. Can you > please help me, please?? > > Jargo > I'm not particulary a gurus but: No one can look for a password. It's crypted and even the root cannot look at it. But you can reset it (ie, give him a new password). Use the "passwd" command. See "man passwd" Cya -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message