From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 14 21:38:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05791 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:38:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05785 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:38:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4034.ime.net [209.90.195.44]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.3/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id AAA01994; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:38:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19990215003609.03c53270@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:36:47 -0500 To: Thomas Bentz , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: Root password In-Reply-To: <36C7AE11.2645FA09@concentric.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:18 AM 2/15/99 , Thomas Bentz wrote: >Is there any way to change the root password without reinstalling the >OS? Thanks, Tom Try booting the kernel in 'single-user mode' (-s at the boot prompt) and then you can do a 'passwd root'.. That should work. HOPEFULLY you're doing this to your own machine :) --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP DSS/1024 Public Key ID: 0x409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message