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From: The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net>
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To: Oscar Castaneda <oscarcvt@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: root password question
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Hi,

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Oscar Castaneda wrote:

> How can i go about recovering the root (or user) password for a freeBSD box?
> is there like a single user mode like in linux?
yes, at the bootstrap prompt "boot:" (obtainable by pressing any key when
prompted at boot) type boot -s and u should boot into single user mode.

PsyV


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