Saturday, November 1, 2008

Reset the root password on OpenBSD or FreeBSD

Start or reboot the system.
At the boot prompt:


boot> boot -s

# mount -uw /          #make / writable
# mount /usr           #mount /usr
# passwd               #change the password

#reboot

 

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