Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:19:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Shane Reid <nebula@accesscomm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901172018260.19821-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <001b01be4292$af752120$320c10ac@nebula>
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On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Shane Reid wrote: >I hope one of you out there can help me with this. I was working on >configuring a box locally and it wasnt shutdown properly. When I moved it >to the new location I could not log in as root with the same password as >before and I was just working on it. Is there any way to change the root >password without knowing it? Any help would be appeciated. Thanks in >advance. Boot to single user mode by typing -s at the boot: prompt. The enter the 'passwd' command. Catchya Later, | Give me UNIX or give me a typewriter. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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