Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:56:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Weldon S Godfrey 3 <weldon@excelsus.com> To: Purwa Riadi <purwa@progs4wealth.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Password Recovery Message-ID: <20011019085129.E83187-100000@joule.excelsus.com> In-Reply-To: <003901c1588b$eabbd000$ab5b96ca@padjajaran>
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If you are lucky and your console hasn't been "secured" you can do this: CTRL-ATL-DELETE - reboot When it comes up to say "Hit [Enter] to boot ... or press any key" Press any key At the ok prompt, type "boot -s" At the # (sh prompt) mount / mount /usr then /usr/bin/passwd root (new password) [Control-D] Have fun. If my memory serves me right, sometime around Today, Purwa Riadi told me: > Dear FreeBSDers,... > > > I am new user in FreeBSD but I have found the problem that make me > headache.. > My server ( 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE), the password for root is > missing. And, I cant get the correct password. I was try many programs in C > from packetstorm.securify.com but still cant get the solve. The main problem > is that my server cant be stopped because the server is very important for > my network. > > Maybe, anyone who can help me.....pls. > > Best regard > > Purwa R. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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