Forgotten password
Joseph Olatt
joji at eskimo.com
Thu Jun 4 11:48:37 UTC 2009
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:32:27PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >Good day am a new user of of freebsd Os and i forgot my login password, i
> >will need an assitance on how to get it changed.
> boot, press 4 at boot loader prompt to get single user.
>
> after seeing a guestion what to run as a shell (/bin/sh as default) press
> enter.
>
> then
>
> /sbin/mount /
> /usr/bin/passwd
Without any arguments, the password for root will probably get changed.
If the user wants to change his/her personal account passwd, then:
/usr/bin/passwd <login>
> change password
>
> then press CTRL-D
>
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