Problems booting operating system and with root password

[Adrian Pavone]

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Andy Greenwood wrote:
> I don't know what you mean by kernel errors on boot, but you can
> recover your root password by booting into single user mode and then
> running passwd.
> 
> On 5/26/06, Polina Mnouskina <polina_mnouskina at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>>   I am working for the company, that is using FreeBSD on the server
>> mashins.  At the moment we have two problems: First, one of the
>> mashins give no kernael error on the boot. Second, we have lost our
>> root password to the second one. Is there a way to fix any of this two
>> problems without reinstaling the system.
>>
>>   Please, answer asap. Any help (free or paid) will be highly
>> appriciated.
>>
>>
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Unless single user mode is set to insecure, in which case that wouldn't
recover the password.

You could always use a different bootCD and chroot into the FreeBSD
system, then change the password.

Or bootCD and remove the root password hash from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow

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