Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 00:09:01 +0000 () From: Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au> To: Andy Pendry <andy.p@cableinet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Never thought I could be so stupid! Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970531000431.1038D-100000@krondor.cpn.org.au> In-Reply-To: <338EE26B.5A1@cableinet.co.uk>
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Shutdown the machine to single user mode with shutdown(8) or type -s at the boot: prompt when you reboot. mount your filesystems with mount -a change the root password with passwd(1) cheers, Carey Nairn On Fri, 30 May 1997, Andy Pendry wrote: > I am embarrassed! > > I was changing user passwd's in root, and I enterted passwd without a > user name (I was distracted). When I rebooted, I couldn't get into root > because I had unwittingly changed the root passwd. > > I have tried using a boot floppy. The change root passwd option is > avaialable in the menu, but when I select it, it just redisplays the > menu. > > I can still log on as an ordinary user, but I need to get into root. > > Please help! > > Andy Pendry > Network Administrator > Trinity Academy >
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