From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 22:46: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from datasphereweb.com (c182500-a.frndl1.wa.home.com [24.10.46.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9B9537B698 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:45:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2118 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Jan 2001 06:46:06 -0000 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:46:06 -0800 From: David To: Jon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password Message-ID: <20010121224606.A2102@datasphereweb.com> References: <000a01c0843e$3334a1e0$0100a8c0@pienia> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000a01c0843e$3334a1e0$0100a8c0@pienia>; from cpcbuzz@yahoo.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:40:21AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:40:21AM -0500, Jon wrote: > i forgot my root password what can i do From the console boot into single user mode, mount the file system for writing, and then change the password. -- |> /\ \/ @ davidd@datasphereweb.com DataSphere - Back end web programming, site security, and networking david.daugherty@netmanage.com Software Engineer NetManage - The Bridge to E-Business http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/~doc ICQ: 21106703 "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past" -Thomas Jefferson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message