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Date:        Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:02:59 +0200
From:      Arjan Knepper <arjan@jak.nl>
To:        richard harris <h4rris_99@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: single user
Message-ID:  <3B2F1543.A42FEEA1@jak.nl>
References:  <20010619084603.45955.qmail@web11904.mail.yahoo.com>

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Reboot in single user mode

- reboot
- boot -s
- mount filesystems
you should be able to edit anything you want AS ROOT

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

richard harris wrote:

> Hi...
> I prevent booting FreeBSD into the single user mode
> with this path
> in /etc/ttys:#
> # This entry needed for asking password when init goes
> to single-usermode
> # If you want to be asked for password, change
> "secure" to "insecure"here
> console none                        unknown off secure
>
> but right now i forgot my root password, so what can i
> do???
>
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