Subject: Re: forgot root password?
To: None <reinoud@ibbnet.org, netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Ras-Sol <ras-sol@usa.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/22/2000 17:44:46
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Mipam wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:57:17PM -0700, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> > A friend of mine forgot the root password on his NetBSD box.
> >
> > How can he reset the password?
> >
>
> Hmmm well, best thing to do is i guess to mount the root partition of the
> netbsd slice from another os, prolly another bsd or linux.
> Then grap the passwd file and run crack over it.
> Wait some hours or days and see what happens :)
Uhhh, admittedly I've never tried it-
But NetBSD has no single-user boot from the console?
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