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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!KremlSun!satisfy.kiae.su!carrier.kiev.ua!home.silit.crimea.ua!home.silit.crimea.ua!not-for-mail From: igp@silit.crimea.ua (Igor G. Peymer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How do one regain 'root' passwd? Date: 10 May 1995 10:46:47 +0400 Organization: Information Tehnology Research Laboratory Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3opngn$eg9@home.silit.crimea.ua> References: <3ojm1n$ago@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: home.silit.crimea.ua X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] McLemore (mclemore@aol.com) wrote: : We have a free-bsd box that someone else installed and then they forgot : the password for the 'root' account. : How do we get this back without reinstalling the entire system from : scratch? : I tried booting in single-user mode but that just put in my a read-only : mode and even if it didn't, I'd guess it would still probably want me to : KNOW the old passwd to change it. After that you mast remount your root filesystem us writeble. For example: mount -w /dev/wd0a / or some else if you install your system to another device. After this manipulatin you can change root or else passwords. Igor