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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 1995 23:28:45 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
To:        LPPelletier@cmq.qc.ca (Luc Pelletier)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Root password
Message-ID:  <199508152128.XAA24562@gvr.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <2125827.ensmtp@cmq.qc.ca> from "Luc Pelletier" at Aug 15, 95 05:10:29 pm

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Luc Pelletier wrote:
> 
> 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?

If your console was not made secure, boot single user (with the '-s'
option at the FreeBSD boot prompt). Then fsck -p all your disks, 
mount -a and passwd.

-Guido



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