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Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:32:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Deji Ogunsanya <ayodejee@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Forgotten password
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906041331410.32705@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <918477.18876.qm@web110706.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
References:  <918477.18876.qm@web110706.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

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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




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