Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:30:31 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: kc5vdj@swbell.net Cc: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>, ohahx@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I forgot the root password Message-ID: <20000220163031.E36373@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <200002201706.LAA68999@ppp-207-193-187-122.kscymo.swbell.net>; from jbryant@ppp-207-193-187-122.kscymo.swbell.net on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 11:06:27AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002201148240.14207-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> <200002201706.LAA68999@ppp-207-193-187-122.kscymo.swbell.net>
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On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 11:06:27AM -0600, Jim Bryant wrote: > In reply: > > boot it standalone (when it boots up and stops with a prompt - instead of > > hitting enter - type -s and then enter) > > > > mount your drives in standalone > > > > (mount -a) > > > > you are then root in standalone with your drives mounted - so you can set > > a new password for yourself > > > > (just type passwd) > > > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Stefan Boy wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > Iam using FreeBSD 3.2 > > > > > > And I have lost the paper where i writed the root password. > > > > > > I only got two users on the system, thats me, and my girlfriend. > > > > > > All the passwords was on the piece of paper I lost :\ > > > > > > How can I change the root password ? > > > > > > I dont got the boot disk. > > well, this all assumes that the guy bothered to change his console in > /etc/ttys to "secure". keep in mind, he WROTE HIS PASSWORDS DOWN, > meaning that he is probably extremely new to computing, and as such, I > have my doubts that he will be able to boot to a shell prompt in > single-user mode. As I recall, the default is to ask for root's > password upon booting single-user, unless /etc/ttys is explicitly > changed. All ttyv's are marked "secure" in the default /etc/ttys. I do not recall this ever not being the default. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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