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To: LPPelletier@cmq.qc.ca (Luc Pelletier)
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Subject: Re: Root password 
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:24:19 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
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>I have forget my root password. What can I do to recover from that?
>Is there some kind of trick?
>I thought of making some special boot diskette in order to edit the password
>file.
>Will that work? How can I make this disquette?
>
>Thank you   -Lpp
>
>P.S. Are you laughing as much as I feel stupid...   :-)

At the boot prompt, specify the "-s" flag.  This will drop you
into single user mode where you can change root's password to 
what every you want.
--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM
  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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