How to restore a lost root password...

[Andrew D]

G'Day,

Steven Susbauer wrote:
> Mauricio López wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Bye

--snip--

>>
>> As far as I know, from my previous Linux experience, you just need a
>> LiveCD in order to boot the PC, mount the / partition, edit
>> /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow and change the hash for one that correspond
>> to one we know. Perhaps you can make it in every UNIX.
>>
> This is similar to what Matthew Seaman was mentioning.
> 
> I am curious though, might it be possible to boot from something like
> Freesbie (or a fixit disc), mount the drive, chroot to the actual
> install and run passwd like normal to change the password? Does root on

yep.

> FreeBSD ask to verify the old password when trying to change its own?
> 

nope :)

HTH
cya
Andrew

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