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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Tom van Oosterom wrote:

> I took down my freebsd server a few months ago, and now I cannot
> remember root password.  (Pretty lame, I know).  But, I was told that
> there is a fix it disk available to boot from to let you, among other
> things, change root password. 

Assuming you did not disable secure on the console, you can type '-s' at
the boot: prompt, which will drop you to single user mode.  At that point
you can use passwd to change root's password.  Then type 'exit' and the
system will come up to multiuser mode.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major