Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!wnp
From: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Root passwd
Message-ID: <7767@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 5 Apr 89 11:07:22 GMT
References: <133@bsadrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <133@bsadrc.UUCP> carver@bsadrc.UUCP (Darrel R. Carver) writes:
 >I have just recently acquired a wyse PC.  It boots minix (1.1) fine,
 >however, Andy's book does not give the root passwd.  I would like to
 >build my minix partition on the hard disk and begin upgrading to
 >1.[234].  I guess I am just dense today.  Can someone either tell me
 >the root passwd, or tell me how to set the damn thing?

The root password on MINIX as distributed is set to "geheim", which
is Dutch (as well as German) for "secret".

You set it the same way as on UNIX, log in as root, and type "passwd".
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