forgotten password

From: Brian (brian.maycock_at_monteray.com)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:17:17 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>how do you recover a forgotten administrator password?
>.
>The only way I got over this problem was to reboot my
machine from the support CD. But this will wipe all data
and programes from your machine.

I was lucky to a point in that I was already rebuilding my
system.