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From: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com>
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On Sunday 14 August 2005 11:11 am, John C. Bogard wrote:
> Root PW lost, need to access FBSD and am unable to now Is there a
> work-around or way to boot to an install disk and reset root password.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
> John C. Bogard
> 863-255-6100
> _______________________________________________

Reboot into single user mode and mount your drive (mount -a).
Use passwd to reset the root password.

Beech


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