From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 18:26:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81AB71065671 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:26:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ACCF8FC39 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:26:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819631CF31; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:26:16 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:26:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47D7CE4E.7030508@alshome.be> <20080312151922.GC6354@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20080312112736.47c2c4b5.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20080312112736.47c2c4b5.wmoran@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803121926.15130.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Jerry McAllister , Bill Moran Subject: Re: Superuser password lost X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:26:17 -0000 On Wednesday 12 March 2008 16:27:36 Bill Moran wrote: > I don't know of anywhere in the FreeBSD base system > that the term "superuser" is used In the kernel even! suser(9), suser_cred(9), vfs_suser(9) -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.