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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!elmira.functional.com!grail From: Giao Nguyen <grail@functional.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Root password Date: 18 Mar 1997 11:19:09 GMT Organization: FIS Technologies Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5gltnd$56m$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <332E4CD3.7971@pjwstk.waw.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: elmira.functional.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37292 Grzegorz Dobrowolski <duzy@pjwstk.waw.pl> wrote: : I have a problem with root password. I forgot it. : I used -c option in boot command, but I can't change root password : because root file system is read only. : I can mount device where is root file system elsewhere in read-write : mode, but vipw don't change passwd in eg. /mnt/etc... directory : What should I do ? Help! : Grzeg Sounds like fun =) boot with the -s option to go into single user mode. Then mount -a -t ufs to mount all the filesystems as they should normally be mounted. Then change your password as necessary. Giao Nguyen Project Manager FIS Technologies