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From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
To: Jesse <bextreme@sprynet.com>
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Subject: Re: help! I forgot to set my password!!!!
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On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Jesse wrote:

>   HELP!!! when I installed freeBSD v2.1.5, I forgot to set the root
> password! Could you please tell me the default password so I can get
> into my system? 
> 
> P.S. FreeBSD is installed on my second hard disk. I use OSBS20b8 to
> access it.

  If you didn't set a password, then there isn't one. It won't prompt you 
for one unless you set it.

- Justin J. Ashworth
-- CS Student - Montana State University
--- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU
-- ashworth@cs.montana.edu
- http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth