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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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