RE: Recovery of root password

[Richard Mwangi <RMWANGI at strathmore.edu>]

My colleagues had a similar problem yesterday this is what they did/said

We managed to do it.
 
In Linux 7.1, it was simple:
1. Use the boot-up floppy.
2. when the prompt for lilo appears, write 
        Linux -s
3. Linux will boot to a single user mode.
4. run passwd root and change it.
5. Reboot



Thanks Richard
-----Original after forawrdign to them all the forwards I 

-----Original Message-----
From: Agbenya Adotey [mailto:gagbey at ghana.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:32 AM
To: afnog at afnog.org
Subject: Recovery of root password


Hi All,
Please i need help.
we installed a freebsd box version 4.2 some way back in May.
We haven't used it since then.
Moreover we installed a lot of packages on it.
I'm afraid we don't want to go over the whole process of
re-installation.
we have forgotten the root password.
I tried using the CDROM to recover it but to no avail.
I don't what i'm doing wrong.
Any help please?

Regards,
Agbenya Adotey.
N.C.S
P.M.B
Accra-Ghana.



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