From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 4 11:54:32 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82432EEA for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:54:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from victor@bsdes.net) Received: from equilibrium.bsdes.net (244.Red-217-126-240.staticIP.rima-tde.net [217.126.240.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279181CF9 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:54:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by equilibrium.bsdes.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C713A22877; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 13:54:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 13:54:17 +0200 From: Victor Balada Diaz To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" Subject: Re: pw Message-ID: <20130604115417.GN74846@equilibrium.bsdes.net> References: <20130603.214755.24886.0@webmail02.dca.untd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20130603.214755.24886.0@webmail02.dca.untd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:54:32 -0000 On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 01:47:55AM +0000, gs_stoller@juno.com wrote: > > > ____________________________________________________________ > NetZero now offers 4G mobile broadband. Sign up now. > http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT1 > > I have 2 FreeBSD systems (they are using versions 4.3 and 4.7 of the FreeBSD Operating System) that I have not used for a long time, and I have forgotten their passwords. I have information on these systems that I want to retrieve but I have not been able to log into these Systems. My problem was put on the internet several years ago and the usual ways of getting into the systems (basically by being the operator) were suggested and tried, unsuccressfully. A friend and I discussed my problem and he suggested that I zero out the root password so that I can get in as rooy (to set a new password and then continue operating as root). > Does the FreeBSD community have a program (either on a floppy or a CD ROM, preferably the latter) that can do this? If not, I suggest that you write one that would work with all the (formats of) password files that have ever been used. If it can determine the format of password files just by examining them, that would be fine. If it can't, then it should ask the user in which version of the FreeBSD Operating System the password file was used, try to verify it by the structure of the password file and if it is verified make a copy of the password file (in case something goes wrong, so that the system can be restored to its original condition and so undo anything that this program has done), and zero out the root password. After this is done, one could log in as root to set the root password and afterwards (as root) set other user passwords. > > Operating Systems that have ever been run. > You could set it up to look Hello, You can follow the steps detailed here[1] to reset your root password. [1]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#idp75977264 Regards. Victor. -- La prueba más fehaciente de que existe vida inteligente en otros planetas, es que no han intentado contactar con nosotros.