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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Root Password Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:44:47 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 20 Message-ID: <336598DF.29FA@OntheNet.com.au> References: <18F8FF21930307C2.9C8789DEFA86E574.971B7B7D034EAE5D@library-proxy.airnews.net> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Mark Guz <markguz@sol.co.uk> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40053 Mark Guz wrote: > > I have just installed FreeBSD but forgot to set the root password, how > do I LOGIN? > > I can't find a default password anywhere in the documentation There is NO default password. In fact, you should be able to login just by hitting <cr> at the password prompt! However, if that doesn't work, try booting into 'single-user' mode (-s at boot prompt!), hit <cr> to get the default Bourne shell and then- # fsck -p -y # mount -a -t ufs # passwd root ... Tony