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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:10:09 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        "alena eckert" <aecker@uaig.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Creating a Super user Account
Message-ID:  <44y7rnx4ge.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <180722FAFBF7C548AE587D81D0107E6A03826761@flanmbxm1.uaig.net> (alena eckert's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:57:54 -0400")
References:  <180722FAFBF7C548AE587D81D0107E6A03826761@flanmbxm1.uaig.net>

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"alena eckert" <aecker@uaig.net> writes:

> 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?

The is a Frequently Asked Question:
 "I have forgotten the root password! What do I do?"
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW

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