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Date:      Mon, 13 Jun 2005 04:17:38 +0530
From:      Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
To:        Christopher Black <cblack@securecrossing.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Angelo Munez <angelo_2871@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: cant su forgot passwd
Message-ID:  <42ACBB8A.5010508@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1118615418.682.4.camel@localhost>
References:  <20050612215318.55920.qmail@web41001.mail.yahoo.com> <1118615418.682.4.camel@localhost>

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On 6/13/2005 4:00, Christopher Black wrote:

>There's no way to recover the original password since it's stored in a
>one-way hash.  You can boot into single user mode and reset it though.  
>  
>
Provided you have not marked the console as insecure :)

Regards
S.

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