From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 7 13:52:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20161 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu (sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.35.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20145 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:52:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-cc1-20.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.58.29]) by sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA16893; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 16:50:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36BE0A83.4D82D496@confusion.net> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 16:49:56 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@isis.dynip.com CC: rivers@dignus.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: HELP!!!! References: <199902071823.VAA63096@isis.dynip.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a way to keep people from doing this who aren't supposed to? Like if I set up a BSD box in a library and someone knows how to do that, is there a way to stop them? (Or do I just put a password on the BIOS so they can't reboot fully?) root@isis.dynip.com wrote: > On 7 Feb, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > >> > >> We are a small ISP in NW Arkansas, at one of our customers sites we have installed a FreeBSD server as their firewall, www proxy and mail server. As you can see from the attachment below we made a mistake and gave them the root password. Do you have any suggestions on recovering the root password short of re-installing the system. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Yes - > > > > You can boot the system in single user mode (type "-s" no quotes > > at the boot prompt.) > > > > From there, you can set the root password. > > > > You'll need to: > > > > mount -u / > > mount /usr > > passwd root > > > > > You forgot to tel him > NEVER give away your ROOT password, even to your mother. > infact, never give away any password, on the net, be paranoid. > Never know WHO ?? is watching. examples ,,, > > NSA (LEAST OF YOUR CONCERN IF NOT DOING SOMETHING REALLY BAD) > Hackers.com > etc,,,, > > hussssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhh > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message