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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:05:48 +0100
From:      "Barry Byrne" <bb@wbtsystems.com>
To:        "Agbenya Adotey" <adoteya@hotmail.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Recovery Of Root Password
Message-ID:  <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKEEMCFPAA.bb@wbtsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <F30BEr8pkpLkTgbLYlu0000912f@hotmail.com>

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Agbenya:

You need to boot to single user mode and then change the root password. See
the FAQ for further details.

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

Regards,

Barry

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IT Manager
WBT Systems
Block 2, Harcourt Centre
Harcourt St, Dublin 2, Ireland
www.wbtsystems.com

direct  +353 1 417 0150
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Agbenya Adotey
> Sent: 10 September 2001 17:59
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Recovery Of Root Password
>
>
> Hi All,
> My name is Agbenya Adotey. I installed a freebsd box version 4.2 some way
> back in May.
> Since then i haven't come to this box. i have forgotten the root password.
> My little knowledge of using the CDrom to recover it has failed.
> I'm afraid to do a re-installation since i have done a lot of
> configurations
> on this box.
> I don't know what to do now.
> I would appreciate some help from anyone.
>
> Regards,
> Agbenya
> Network Computer Systems
> P.M.B
> Osu - Accra
> Ghana
> http://www.ghana.com.gh or
> http://www.ghana.com
>
>
>
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