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From: Michael Graffam <mgraffam@mhv.net>
To: grcuerrier <grcuerrier@cnwl.igs.net>
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Subject: Re: Lost root password
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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, grcuerrier wrote:

> Strange question I know.  I thought possibly there would be a way upon
> power up.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

And, come to think of it.. you could boot with a FreeBSD boot disk,
manually mount your root partition on say, /mnt and then use an
editor to delete the password entry. But this isnt nearly as fun :)

Michael Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net)
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