Re: Recovery of root password

[Hervey Allen <hervey at nsrc.org>]

Take a look at:

         http://freebsd.lowlife.org/73.html

for instructions on how to recover in this situation.

Good luck.

- Hervey Allen for nsrc.org

At 05:31 PM 9/10/01 -0700, 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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