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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:06:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
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To: Purwa Riadi <purwa@progs4wealth.com>
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Subject: Re: Password Recovery
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Purwa Riadi wrote:

> The main problem is that my server cant be stopped because the server
> is very important for my network.

Well, I luckily never "lost" my root password, but I doubt that you will
be able to recover from this problem without your server being
interrupted. You will probably have to boot from something else than the
hard disk (FreeBSD install CDs of floppies, for example), in order to
clear this up.

Greetings
Nils


Nils Holland
Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany
http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org


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