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Date:      Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:08:43 -0700
From:      "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com>
To:        Chris Picton <Chris.Picton@usko.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hacking the root password
Message-ID:  <393E8FAB.CE961DF7@home.com>
References:  <393E5F09.263BF8B3@usko.com>

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Chris Picton wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have just taken over the administration of some unix systems.  There
> is a machine, running as a secondary name server on FreeBSD for which no
> record of the root password has been stored, so I can't log in to the
> box.  If it was a linux machine, I would boot off a floppy with
> init=/bin/bash and manually change the root password.  However, I have
> never used FreeBSD before.  How would I go about getting/changing the
> root password for this machine.

you can reboot in single user mode and do the same thing.

raymundo

> 
> Regards
> 
> --
> Chris Picton
> Usko Communications Systems Developer
> Chris.Picton@usko.com
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