Fwd: re: Recovery of root password

[Greg Kintz <gakintz at pobox.com>]

Title: Fwd: re: Recovery of root password

To recover root follow the following steps:

1. Boot into single user mode.

2. Do fsck

3. mount -a

4. /stand/sysinstall

5. go to "do post configuration"

6. "  "  change root passwd

7. reboot

and that's it

Greg Kintz and Lorenzo Mitchell

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LINGO Net

Monrovia, Liberia

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> Delivered-To: <afnog at afnog.org>
> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:31:53
> -0700
> From: Agbenya Adotey <gagbey at ghana.com>
> To: afnog at afnog.org
> Subject: Recovery of  root
> password
>
> 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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