Have screwed up my longin and password

[Kelly D. Grills]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:21:04PM -0500, Roger Scow 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?
> 

You're not the first, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW


-- 
Kelly D. Grills
kdgrills at the-grills.com

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