Re: Recovery of root password

[Sematimba Noah K <ksemat at wawa.eahd.or.ug>]

You need to go to the ok prompt. Which you should be able to access at the
point where it says press enter to boot kernel immedialtely oor any other
key .... Of course press any other key at that point. You should then boot
into single user mosw with boot -s that is if you didn't restrict it with
a password.

Noah.

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Agbenya Adotey wrote:

> Hi All,
> Please i need help.
> we installed a freebsd box version 4.2 some way back in May.
> We haven't used it since then.
> Moreover we installed a lot of packages on it.
> I'm afraid we don't want to go over the whole process of
> re-installation.
> we have forgotten the root password.
> I tried using the CDROM to recover it but to no avail.
> I don't what i'm doing wrong.
> Any help please?
>
> Regards,
> Agbenya Adotey.
> N.C.S
> P.M.B
> Accra-Ghana.
>
>
>
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