From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 7 07:38:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA07910 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 07:38:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.auto-net.com (ns1.auto-net.com [208.154.252.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07903 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 07:38:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darren@auto-net.com) Received: from laptop (laptop.auto-net.com [208.154.252.45]) by ns1.auto-net.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA00908 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 09:37:40 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <00aa01be52af$9f9d6780$2dfc9ad0@laptop.auto-net.com> From: "Darren Farrish" To: Subject: Fw: HELP!!!! Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 09:36:26 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA07906 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Thank you in advance, Darren Farrish -----Original Message----- From: Alan Lantz To: 'darren@iso.net' Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 11:43 AM Subject: HELP!!!! >Darren, > I need your help Monday. Somehow through error I have scrambled >the root password to our mail server. Since it was also our firewall, it >seems to have every back door closed and I am unable to restore the >login. Do you or anyone at ISO have the ability to login and restore >the root password? If not what needs to take place to get it restored? > >Good news is that we can still send/receive mail over the weekend >and users seem unaffected. I have left a voice mail on your machine >over the weekend and that was what it was about. > >Hope to hear from you on Monday, > >Alan Lantz >Northwest Medical Center > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message