Creating a Super user Account

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Tue Oct 10 14:00:55 PDT 2006


On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:57:54PM -0400, alena eckert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I work for United Automobile Insurance Group.  We recently had our only
> employee with a super user account leave the company.  No here knows
> this employees id or password to update information.  Can you please
> advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user
> account without this information?

Have a look at the Handbook:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW

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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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