Su to Root

Jez Hancock jez.hancock at munk.nu
Sat Mar 20 10:28:52 PST 2004


On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Kevin Coles wrote:
> I am using freebsd 5.2, which I have installed recently. I cannot seem 
> to su to root while using my normal account.
> All I get is a message saying "Sorry." Can anyone help?

Try resetting the root password perhaps?  See here:

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

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