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Date:      Thu, 6 May 2004 02:47:12 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Gregory Edigarov <greg@profi.kharkov.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: any way to recover root password on 5.2
Message-ID:  <20040506094712.GA50654@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040506092818.GA10429@profi.kharkov.ua>
References:  <20040506092818.GA10429@profi.kharkov.ua>

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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:28:18PM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I forgot root pasword on my just installed server.
> I've tryed to recover it by going to single user, then doing=20
> mount -a; passwd root, but no success. It says "entropy device
> blocking. Dance fandago on keyboard to unlock".
> what can I do?

Type random stuff on the keyboard to generate entropy.

Kris

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