
July 7th, 2006, 12:46 PM
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Banned ;)
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Woodland Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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You can boot it in single user mode and change the root password to anything you like. Here's how to do it:
1. For older freebsd systems, when booting up, it should give you a message to press Enter to boot /kernel or hit any key within 5 seconds (or words to that effect). Instead of typing Enter, type any other key and then type boot -s and then press enter. This will boot the kernel up in single user mode.
In newer versions of freebsd, it should give you a "Welcome to FreeBSD" message" followed by a number of boot options. Hit Space here and then select option 4 (boot in single user mode) and hit enter.
2. You will then see a prompt like this:
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
Hit enter here and you'll be presented with a shell.
3. At the prompt, type mount -a to mount everything.
4. Type passwd and change the root password to something you choose. If you want to change a user's password as well, you can type passwd name_of_user to change any user's password.
5. Type exit to reboot in multi-user mode.
Now you should be able to login as root with the password you chose.
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