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Date:      Tue, 23 Dec 1997 20:04:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      Michael Graffam <mgraffam@mhv.net>
To:        grcuerrier <grcuerrier@cnwl.igs.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Lost root password
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95q.971223200336.9987B-100000@spice.mhv.net>
In-Reply-To: <199712240043.TAA02258@host.cnwl.igs.net>

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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, grcuerrier wrote:

> Strange question I know.  I thought possibly there would be a way upon
> power up.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

And, come to think of it.. you could boot with a FreeBSD boot disk,
manually mount your root partition on say, /mnt and then use an
editor to delete the password entry. But this isnt nearly as fun :)

Michael Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net)
http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam - Religion, Philosophy, Computers, etc




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