From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 11: 8:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4791F37B85C for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:08:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from RaymundoVega@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.5.252.61]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000607180844.CGXT28251.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.com>; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:08:44 -0700 Message-ID: <393E8FAB.CE961DF7@home.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:08:43 -0700 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Picton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hacking the root password References: <393E5F09.263BF8B3@usko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Picton wrote: > > Hi > > I have just taken over the administration of some unix systems. There > is a machine, running as a secondary name server on FreeBSD for which no > record of the root password has been stored, so I can't log in to the > box. If it was a linux machine, I would boot off a floppy with > init=/bin/bash and manually change the root password. However, I have > never used FreeBSD before. How would I go about getting/changing the > root password for this machine. you can reboot in single user mode and do the same thing. raymundo > > Regards > > -- > Chris Picton > Usko Communications Systems Developer > Chris.Picton@usko.com > > 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