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Subject: Re: misc/13616: The guy who set up my mail server changed the password. Can I find it?
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Synopsis: The guy who set up my mail server changed the password. Can I find it?

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: sheldonh
State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 7 06:55:09 PDT 1999
State-Changed-Why: 
This isn't really what the PR database is for.  What you need to do
is send e-mail to questions@freebsd.org, explaining what version
of FreeBSD you are running.
 
However, I can tell you that if you're running 3.2-RELEASE or later,
you can press spacebar at the pre-boot countdown, which will take you
to a prompt at which you can type ``boot -s'' without the quotes and
press enter. This will drop you into single-user mode. 
 
Once in single-user mode, you can do ``mount -a'', again without the 
quotes, and then change root's password with the command ``passwd''.
 
If that doesn't help you, see my first paragraph. :-)


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