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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 10:26:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        gnut@cki.ipri.kiev.ua (Oles Hnatkevych)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: root password forgotten
Message-ID:  <199805051726.KAA08837@tao.thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980505141505.13932A-100000@cki.ipri.kiev.ua> from Oles Hnatkevych at "May 5, 98 02:21:34 pm"

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According to Oles Hnatkevych:
> Hello!
> 
>   I'm in deep trouble. We've forgotten root password, and the only
> thing we have are boot floppy and fixit floppy. How we solve this?
> I can mount harddrive partition, look at its /etc files, even 
> vi works ;-).
> 
>   Booting in single-user mode does not help coz root partition 
> is read-only. :-(
> 
>   Great thanks in advance!
> 
> Bye!
> 
	After coming up in single-user mode, remount / by hand.

	Do 

	`` mount / ''

	and proceed from that point.

	gary


> 


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   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix


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