From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 10:37:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pfa0frpk001.panasonicfa.com (unknown [38.248.119.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A177337B663 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:37:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by exchange.panasonicfa.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:37:26 -0600 Message-ID: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766DD2@exchange.panasonicfa.com> From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" To: "'Ing. Urias Manuel Coronel Urias'" Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: RE: Help Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:37:21 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :) The Best way to get a root password is to ask another admin. or boot in single user mode (boot -s) run fsck mount / mount /usr / passwd root run fsck again passwd root change password and reboot... ...as far as I remember -----Original Message----- From: Ing. Urias Manuel Coronel Urias [mailto:pink@cespsin.gob.mx] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:30 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Help Dear friends; I'm an administrator of one of the servers using freeBSD at this office but I haven't had a course of administration, and I forgot the root's password, How can I change the password of root again. Sincerely; Ing. Urias Manuel Coronel Urias Jefe de Implementacion Tecnologica del Banco Central de Datos del Consejo Estatal de Seguridad Publica Gobierno del Edo. de Sinaloa Insurgentes s/n Col. Centro Sinaloa Culiacan, Sinaloa 80129 Tel. Fax (67)146864 tppanther@hotmail.com pink@cespsin.gob.mx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message