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January 9, 2005 at 10:43 PM
nevernessit

Forgotten FreeBSD login password

by nevernessit . Updated 21 years, 4 months ago

I have recently taken on a job at a local church as their IT Consultant.
I went to logon to their FreeBSD web server today to make some changes to the website only to be told that they had forgot the password for this machine.
I tried a few options using “root” as the user name and a number of passwords they thought it may be. None however worked.
Is there anyway to reset the login password or bypass it so I can create another user? Also am I correct in saying that the “administrator” account on a FreeBSD machine is “root” the same as a Linux (RedHat, Mandrake) machine? as I have not used a FreeBSD machine before.

Thanks for your help in advance.

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