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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 11:04:36 -0500
From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
To: Darren Farrish <darren@auto-net.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Fw: HELP!!!!
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On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 09:36:26AM -0600, Darren Farrish wrote:
> We are a small ISP in NW Arkansas, at one of our customers sites we have
> installed a FreeBSD server as their firewall, www proxy and mail server. As
> you can see from the attachment below we made a mistake and gave them the
> root password. Do you have any suggestions on recovering the root password
> short of re-installing the system. Any assistance will be greatly
> appreciated.

You'll have to go over to where the machine is, boot up in single-user mode,
and change the root password.

Chris

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