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Hi,

John Rackham  <sneakycat@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
> hello  ive got a problem login to freebsd. i had a copy  of freebsd
> given me and when i installed it  it  asks me  for 
> a login name and password. is there a way of  findin out the login
> name and password?

yes of course. yust log in as root (this is the system administrator)
and type:

	cat /etc/master.passwd | cut -d ":" -f 1

if you can see the username, that matches your userid, set a new
password for this username by typing:

	passwd the_username_you_found_out

HTH


	Sven

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