From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 7 09:12:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17000 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 09:12:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16995 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 09:12:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA23153; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:12:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA01706; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:55:34 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.1/8.6.9) id MAA02810; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:14:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:14:00 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199902071714.MAA02810@lakes.dignus.com> To: darren@auto-net.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: HELP!!!! In-Reply-To: <00aa01be52af$9f9d6780$2dfc9ad0@laptop.auto-net.com> 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. 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 - Dave Rivers - > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message