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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:50:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: richard harris <h4rris_99@yahoo.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <security@freedsd.org>
Subject: Re: single user
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You'll need to boot off a fixit floppy, and redo your master.passwd file
from there.

Joe clarke

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, 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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