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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:33:31 +0200 (IST)
From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Andrey Tzvetkov <andrey@internet.no>
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Subject: Re: Problem
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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Andrey Tzvetkov wrote:

> Hi, I have installed my 4.4 BSD System and everything worked well.
> But when I reboot my machine in BSD the system asks me for a login name
> and password. I have tried to set the login name and password and root password
> in the install program but that didn't help. Nothing works and I don't
> know what to do.
> 
> 
Did you try root with no password? That's the default...
In any case, you can give -s at the Boot: prompt. This will bring you 
into single user mode where you can modify root's password.

Nadav