Have screwed up my longin and password

[Jeremy Gransden]

On 3/14/07, Roger Scow <rdscow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am totally new to FreeBSD, and have installed it and Gnome2/X11.
> Somewhere in the process I have either corrupted or lost my password
> and user name access.  When I try to log into Gnome, either as root
> or as username, it is a no go.
>
> I know that I set up myself as a user, and set a root password when I
> was installing.
>
> What do I do now?  Can I restart from the install CD and go back into
> Sysinstall?
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 on a Macbook Pro, via Parallels Desktop.
>
> Thanks very much and sorry for such a stupid predicament.
>
> Roger
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try these instructions

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

also see this for changing your other passwords

http://freebsd.active-venture.com/handbook/users-modifying.html

especially section 8.6.4 example 8-7