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To: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>
cc: Luc Pelletier <LPPelletier@cmq.qc.ca>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Root passwd again! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Aug 1995 17:40:16 CDT."
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 00:18:17 +0100
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From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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In message <199508222240.RAA28636@jake.lodgenet.com>, "Eric L. Hernes" writes:
>Sounds like an SCO message. But the FreeBSD message is similar,
>'Enter root password, or ^D to go multi-user'.

>This means that you made your console insecure.
>As far as I know, your only option now is a reinstall. :(

If you can get hold of a fixit floppy, or ask someone to put one
together for you, with just mount & vi and a directory, you could
probably bring it back (assuming you can boot from floppy, or if you
can't, you can remember the BIOS password :-) ).

Gary