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Date:      Sun, 04 Aug 2002 20:42:36 -0700
From:      Desmond Lee <desmond.lee@shaw.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   root unkown?
Message-ID:  <CMEMLGKEKMLLFOICILNMGEFOCBAA.desmond.lee@shaw.ca>

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Hi there

I can't log into my machine because i hosed the /etc/group and the
/etc/master.passwd files while doing an upgrade.

Anywho, i'm looking at the freebsd faq , 10.14. I have forgotten the root
password! What do I do?, to try and change the root password. But when i do
'passwd root' i get a message like 'passwd: Unkown user root".

Can someone please help me :(

Thanks

Desmond



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