-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:33 am, Patrick Wilcox wrote: > I loaded FreeBSD on one of my old PCs a few years ago. > I wanted to start using it again, but I can't > remember what the root password was. I'm sure I used > the default, but I tried hitting enter and using > "password", "root", "r00t", "sysadmin", "admin" and a > few others to no avail. > > Can anyone tell me some others to try? > > Alternately, I tried logging into the box in > single-user mode to change it. However, when I got to > the boot: prompt and typed -s, it proceeded to do a > normal boot.
A few things - there isn't a "default" root password. You either set it or you don't Nextly (grin) for single user mode to change the root password, look here. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW - -- Best regards, Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBQBvaxA+T/4DAG8NjEQJfnwCeM37Jgb6X7o2vjdBeWc9CrXD69eoAoLwg h7PYXfgxNTTb8Bpd3OIllbpN =qJ+Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"