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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:06:00 -1000 (HST)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
To:        Lee Mark Mercado <mercadolee@hotmail.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: root password
Message-ID:  <20010918160527.V34905-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
In-Reply-To: <F2074YQvTJ8Wc59mLd600018740@hotmail.com>

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On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Lee Mark Mercado wrote:

> how could i retrieve a root password ?

	You can't retrieve it.  The best you can do is boot into single
user mode and then change it.  See the link below:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW


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