----- Original Message ----- From: "Pablo Manalastas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: [plug] Password recovery?
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > any idea how i can recovery a passord on FREEBSD? please email me @ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) type "boot -s" at boot prompt (the one you saw counting before it loads the kernel) to enter single user mode 2) hit enter when asking what shell to use 3) mount -u / (to remount root filesystem from read only to read/write) 4) mount -a (to all the filesystem) 5) passwd root (to change root password) 6) exit (to continue booting) > If you forgot your password, there is no way of "recovering" it. there is doc :-> the trick and universal way of recovering your password and applicable to all unix flavor is to remove the disk and mount it to another pc with the same version of its OS and manipulate the password file either by blanking the password column or replace it that comes from the other password file :-> fooler. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
