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Subject: Re: Forgotten password
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> Good day am a new user of of freebsd Os and i forgot my login password, i will need an assitance on how to get it changed.
boot, press 4 at boot loader prompt to get single user.

after seeing a guestion what to run as a shell (/bin/sh as default) press 
enter.

then

/sbin/mount /
/usr/bin/passwd
change password

then press CTRL-D