Date: 25 Nov 2002 21:35:04 -0800 From: Steve Wingate <s.wingate@cox.net> To: "CDG." <cdgamingdotcom@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: what are my options? lost password. Message-ID: <1038288904.16217.12.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20021126052716.86465.qmail@web14507.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021126052716.86465.qmail@web14507.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 21:27, CDG. wrote:
i moved over a month ago and i'm just getting
everything set back up. i tried to login to my
freebsd machine with what i thought was my password
and i can't login. can someone tell me what todo?
will i need to reinstall? =(
Boot into single user mode, mount / read-writeable, edit /etc/passwd and
change the password field to a "*" or something.
Check the handbook online.
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