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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:00:54 +0100 (BST)
From:      jamie@psi-domain.co.uk (Jamie Heckford)
To:        richard harris <h4rris_99@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: single user
Message-ID:  <20010619090054.BC728402E17@rafiu.psi-domain.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010619085547.74733.qmail@web11906.mail.yahoo.com> "from richard harris at Jun 19, 2001 01:55:47 am"

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If you have a freebsd boot cdrom or floppy lying around,
your best bet is to boot into "fixit" mode, and mount the
drive read-write containing your /etc directory.

Use vi or similar to edit /etc/ttys and reboot into single
user mode.

Hope that helps.

Jamie 

> Hi...
> I prevent booting FreeBSD into the single user mode
> with this path:
> 
> in /etc/ttys:#
> # This entry needed for asking password when init goes
> to single-usermode
> # If you want to be asked for password, change
> "secure" to "insecure"here
> console none                         unknown off
> secure
> 
> but unfortunaly right now i'm forget my root password,
> so what can i do??????
> 
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