From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 10 21:00:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB0A16A403 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:00:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [202.89.146.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7BA043D73 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:00:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9D3A05643F; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:00:46 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:00:46 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: alena eckert Message-ID: <20061010210046.GA34485@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <180722FAFBF7C548AE587D81D0107E6A03826761@flanmbxm1.uaig.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <180722FAFBF7C548AE587D81D0107E6A03826761@flanmbxm1.uaig.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Creating a Super user Account 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: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:00:55 -0000 On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:57:54PM -0400, alena eckert wrote: > Hello, > > > > I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only > employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows > this employees id or password to update information. Can you please > advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user > account without this information? Have a look at the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard