From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 14:36:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copernicus.tranquility.net (copernicus.tranquility.net [206.152.117.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7761D37B4CF for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:36:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sid67@localhost) by copernicus.tranquility.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAEMcXB09603; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:38:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from sid67) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:38:33 -0600 From: Ben Weaver To: "Ing. Urias Manuel Coronel Urias" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help Message-ID: <20001114163833.A9584@tranquility.net> References: <001e01c04e68$dd048480$03120a0a@pacificnet.com.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <001e01c04e68$dd048480$03120a0a@pacificnet.com.mx>; from pink@cespsin.gob.mx on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:29:43AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's a pretty easy fix: Reboot the server into single user mode. Once you get to a command prompt, you can do a mount -a to mount everything in your /etc/fstab. Then do a passwd to change the password for root. Do a ^D and it will boot into multi-user mode. -Ben On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:29:43AM -0700, Ing. Urias Manuel Coronel Urias wrote: > 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