Re: Root pwd and single user mode question

From: Chris (racerx_at_makeworld.com)
Date: 01/31/04

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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:41:36 -0600

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    On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:33 am, Patrick Wilcox wrote:
    > I loaded FreeBSD on one of my old PCs a few years ago.
    > I wanted to start using it again, but I can't
    > remember what the root password was. I'm sure I used
    > the default, but I tried hitting enter and using
    > "password", "root", "r00t", "sysadmin", "admin" and a
    > few others to no avail.
    >
    > Can anyone tell me some others to try?
    >
    > Alternately, I tried logging into the box in
    > single-user mode to change it. However, when I got to
    > the boot: prompt and typed -s, it proceeded to do a
    > normal boot.

    A few things - there isn't a "default" root password. You either set it or you
    don't Nextly (grin) for single user mode to change the root password, look
    here.

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW

    - --
    Best regards,
    Chris

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