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Subject: Re: what are my options?  lost password.
From: Steve Wingate <s.wingate@cox.net>
To: "CDG." <cdgamingdotcom@yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 21:27, CDG. wrote:
    i moved over a month ago and i'm just getting
    everything set back up.  i tried to login to my
    freebsd machine with what i thought was my password
    and i can't login.  can someone tell me what todo? 
    will i need to reinstall?  =(
    
Boot into single user mode, mount / read-writeable, edit /etc/passwd and
change the password field to a "*" or something. 
Check the handbook online.


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|Steve Wingate		<s.wingate@cox.net>			       
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