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From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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To: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net>
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Subject: Re: I have forgotten the root password
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Henrik Hudson wrote:

> Boot into single user mode( boot -s  at the boot prompt), if your console
> here is password protected then Step 2.
>
> Step 2: Grab a boot disk, load the kernel on the floppy. Mount the /
> partition of your harddrive
Sorry for interfering: How do you do this? Can you use the
emegency-shell?

Uli.

> and edit the master.passwd file by hand (make it
> blank). Boot into single user mode and the password should be blank. Use
> passwd to change it to whatever.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Henrik
>
> On Tuesday 16 October 2001 08:44, sathyanarayana wrote:
> > Hi  Experts,
> >
> >
> > How to break the root password of FREEBSD M/C.
> > Your Help highly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > satya.
> >
> >
> >
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