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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!neonlights.uoregon.edu!news.jsums.edu!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!cs.ruu.nl!tijger.fys.ruu.nl!slegter From: slegter@fys.ruu.nl (Tom Slegter) Subject: HELP: lost root passwd Sender: usenet@fys.ruu.nl (News system Tijgertje) Message-ID: <slegter.832754504@ruunat.fys.ruu.nl> Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 08:41:44 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ruunat.fys.ruu.nl Organization: Physics and Astronomy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Lines: 23 Hello everybody, Yesterday I installed FreeBSD 2.1.0 on a Pentium machine. Everyting went well until I was so stupid to use chpass to change my root password. I typed it unencrypted !! Consequently I cannot login as root anymore. How can I become root again so I can change the password file again. Please send answers directly to slegter@fys.ruu.nl PS I already made two other accounts which work but have limited access. Greetz, Tom -- Tom Slegter (slegter@fys.ruu.nl) Homepage: http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~slegter Department of Physics and Astronomy, Utrecht University, The Netherlands ----------------( But who am I and why should I talk ?? )----------------