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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!xlink100!ka.sub.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!fauern!gs.dfn.de!news.gwdg.de!switzel From: switzel@gwdu19.gwdg.de (Stefan Witzel) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How do one regain 'root' passwd? Date: 15 May 1995 12:31:44 GMT Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3p7hjg$5ij@gwdu19.gwdg.de> References: <3ojm1n$ago@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3oukqv$phs@tipellium.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: gwdu08-fddi.gwdg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Leigh Hart (hart@apanix.apana.org.au) wrote: : mclemore@aol.com (McLemore) writes: : >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? ........ : boot single user (-s) : # fsck -p : # mount -u / : # passwd root : ... : # ^D And how prevent this ? Stefan Witzel email: switzel@gwdg.de Universitaet Goettingen / Stabsstelle DV fon: (49) 551 394160 Gosslerstrasse 5/7 fax: (49) 551 399612 37073 Goettingen --------------------------