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Subject: Re: Recovery Of Root Password
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From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
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You can't 'recover' the root password, but you can change it to something
new.  This is in the Frequently Asked Questions document.  See:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW

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