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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:01:31 -0500
From:      "Kelly D. Grills" <kdgrills@the-grills.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Have screwed up my longin and password
Message-ID:  <20070315000131.GA87552@the-grills.com>
In-Reply-To: <73B70035-8432-45A9-A5BE-FBB083C21C94@gmail.com>
References:  <73B70035-8432-45A9-A5BE-FBB083C21C94@gmail.com>

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:21:04PM -0500, Roger Scow wrote:
>=20
> I am totally new to FreeBSD, and have installed it and Gnome2/X11.  =20
> Somewhere in the process I have either corrupted or lost my password =20
> and user name access.  When I try to log into Gnome, either as root =20
> or as username, it is a no go.
>=20
> I know that I set up myself as a user, and set a root password when I =20
> was installing.
>=20
> What do I do now?  Can I restart from the install CD and go back into =20
> Sysinstall?
>=20

You're not the first, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT=
-PW


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Kelly D. Grills
kdgrills@the-grills.com


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