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From: Snob Art Genre <brosenga@calvin.pitzer.edu>
To: "Jeffrey R. McCloskey" <Geoffrey@cyberia.com>
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Subject: Re: system admin password
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Jeffrey R. McCloskey wrote:

> Hmmm, looks like I goofed when I installed FreeBSD and forget to specify a
> system administrator password...or create any accounts... so now I am locked
> out.
> 
> The question is simple...is there a default system administrator account
> that is created during installation?  Is there anyway to get into the
> system, or do I need to reinstall the whole dang thing again?  Thanks.
> 
> Jeffrey McCloskey
> Jeffrey R. McCloskey (Geoffrey2/willingheart)
> Administrative Assistant - Hub Ministries
> 

If you don't specify a password then there should be no password.  Log in
as root and don't give a password, it should log you in fine AFAIK.


 Ben