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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:44:27 -0500
From:      Eric <heli@mikestammer.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Creating a Super user Account
Message-ID:  <452C062B.5000605@mikestammer.com>
In-Reply-To: <180722FAFBF7C548AE587D81D0107E6A03826761@flanmbxm1.uaig.net>
References:  <180722FAFBF7C548AE587D81D0107E6A03826761@flanmbxm1.uaig.net>

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alena eckert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I work for United Automobile Insurance Group.  We recently had our only
> employee with a super user account leave the company.  No here knows
> this employees id or password to update information.  Can you please
> advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user
> account without this information?
> 

can you just ask the employee his password? there are ways to do this,
but not without at least a little bit of FreeBSD/UNIX experience. How
comfortable are you with working in the BSD environment with boot CDs, etc?

Eric



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