Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:35:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Ken Blundell <ken@osicom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP - HELP - Lost Root Password Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808181435030.19286-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bdca26$54c4e600$0667eccf@hermes.osicom.net>
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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
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