Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:05:48 +0100 From: "Barry Byrne" <bb@wbtsystems.com> To: "Agbenya Adotey" <adoteya@hotmail.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Recovery Of Root Password Message-ID: <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKEEMCFPAA.bb@wbtsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <F30BEr8pkpLkTgbLYlu0000912f@hotmail.com>
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Agbenya: You need to boot to single user mode and then change the root password. See the FAQ for further details. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT- PW Regards, Barry -------------------------------------------- Barry Byrne IT Manager WBT Systems Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt St, Dublin 2, Ireland www.wbtsystems.com direct +353 1 417 0150 email barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com --------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Agbenya Adotey > Sent: 10 September 2001 17:59 > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Recovery Of Root Password > > > Hi All, > My name is Agbenya Adotey. I installed a freebsd box version 4.2 some way > back in May. > Since then i haven't come to this box. i have forgotten the root password. > My little knowledge of using the CDrom to recover it has failed. > I'm afraid to do a re-installation since i have done a lot of > configurations > on this box. > I don't know what to do now. > I would appreciate some help from anyone. > > Regards, > Agbenya > Network Computer Systems > P.M.B > Osu - Accra > Ghana > http://www.ghana.com.gh or > http://www.ghana.com > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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