Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:06:32 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Change password Message-ID: <20020102140632.GA6845@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <B95B566BD245174196CA4EE29E581883092EEB@HEXCH01.robhughes.com> References: <B95B566BD245174196CA4EE29E581883092EEB@HEXCH01.robhughes.com>
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:14:01AM -0600, Robert D. Hughes wrote: > login as root, passwd <userid> to re-establish a password. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Astill [mailto:bastill@sa.apana.org.au] > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:31 AM > To: questions > Subject: Change password > > > Problem: > For reasons unknown, FBSD has stopped recognising my personal user > password. Root works OK, but obviously I can't sensibly work from > there. > > How can I change/delete that user password without knowing the password > that the system is storing? > No-one has pointed out a few pertinent things here ... :) - It is exceedingly unlikely that FBSD has *forgotten* your password ( we will gloss over the fact that FBSD actually does not know what your password is, only what it's encrypted form is) - Leaving the following possibilities... - You left yourself logged in as root and some villain changed your password while you were playing the flute - Ditto the last, but someone else has the root password and did it that way (perhaps while you were re-stringing your banjo) - The password file is corrupt. Also unlikely, and even more unlikely that the corruption singled out your user ID and apparently not the entry for "root" to corrupt - There is a trojan horse on your system that changed your password - You have been cracked - The year 2002 broke the encryption algorithm for your particular combination of lower case, upper case, number(s) and special characters (which your password contained of course) - And most likely of all, you simply forgot it. try "trustno1" :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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