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    In freebsd, you should be able to recover root access when you have forgotten root password. The root filesystem will be mounted read-only by default. You will nee d to remount it using the mount -ruw / command to give yourself read / write acces s.

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    In freebsd, you should be able to recover root access when you have forgotten root password. The root filesystem will be mounted read-only by default. You will nee d to remount it using the mount -ruw / command to give yourself read / write acces s.

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    In freebsd, you should be able to recover root access when you have forgotten root password. The root filesystem will be mounted read-only by default. You will nee d to remount it using the mount -ruw / command to give yourself read / write acces s.

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    In FreeBSD, you should be able to recover root access when you have forgotten th

    e root password by following these steps:


    1.Restart the system.
    2.At the boot: prompt, enter boot -s to enter Single User Mode.
    3.When asked what shell to use, press the Enter key.
    4.Because the root filesystem will be mounted read-only by default, you will nee
    d to remount it using the mount -ruw / command to give yourself read/write acces
    s.
    5.Run mount -a to remount all filesystems specified in the /etc/fstab file.
    6.Run passwd root to set a new root password.
    7.Run exit to continue booting normally

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