From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 14:36:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01436 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01412 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA29335; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:35:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Ken Blundell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP - HELP - Lost Root Password In-Reply-To: <01bdca26$54c4e600$0667eccf@hermes.osicom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Ken Blundell wrote: > Please can anybody help me...... > > We've lost the password for root access to our FreeBSD box. > We're running FBSD 2.2.2 > > I've tried booting into single user mode (-s) and mounting my drive so it's read-write (mount /dev/sd0a) > I then removed edited the the file /etc/master.passwd and removed the encrypted passwd from the root entry. At the console now when I press the enter key for the password, all it says is Login incorrect.....???? Just use 'passwd'! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message