Creating a Super user Account

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue Oct 10 14:10:33 PDT 2006


"alena eckert" <aecker at uaig.net> writes:

> 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?

The is a Frequently Asked Question:
 "I have forgotten the root password! What do I do?"
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW

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