Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 02:15:29 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: #04125 <tanned7@HOTMAIL.COM> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can't login to my server to root forgot my password please help! Message-ID: <3A00C031.4717E3E0@gmx.de> References: <OE31vlUQ9cAgjHXwKHv00003c64@hotmail.com>
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Hi Mike, > I changed the password to root and now I can't remember it on my BSD box I > can't access anything except a: > login: > Can you please tell me how to get back into root You have to wait for the ten second countdown. It will ask you to press any key to interrupt or "enter" to continue. So press any key except return. At the prompt, which will appear then type "boot -s" and you will enter single user mode without any password (except you had changed this behaviour explicitly). hth Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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