lost root passwd
Marty Landman
MLandman at face2interface.com
Sat Apr 16 15:57:05 PDT 2005
At 06:45 PM 4/16/2005, Benjamin Rossen wrote:
>I think the problem you are having comes because you must boot your
>machine in
>single-user mode to make this work.
>
>Then:
># mount -u /
># mount /usr
># passed root
Hi Benjamin. Joshua's earlier advice to do
># fsck -p
># mount -u /
># mount -a -t ufs
prior to
# passwd root
did the trick for me. Thanks, sure wish I understood what most of this
stuff does, but on the bright side a while back I wished I could make a
useful machine out of FBSD, Apache, Perl etc.., so there is progress.
Thanks,
Marty
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