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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:06:15 -0400
From: Rick Preston <rickjpreston@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7
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On 7/14/05, Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/14/05, Bj=F6rn K=F6nig <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > Rick Preston wrote:
> >
> > > I was going to offer something more complicated, thanks for the tip.
> > > I came to realize that both our ideas require shutting down the
> > > system.  What would be the safest way to do that with out causing
> > > potential damage to the system, without root access?
> >
> > Turn it off. It's not safe, but the only way that I know unless you
> > don't have a user that is member of the group 'operator'. These users
> > are allowed to use the 'shutdown' command with root privileges:
> >
> >  > ls -l /sbin/shutdown
> > -r-sr-x---  1 root  operator  10148 Jul 11 14:12 /sbin/shutdown
> >
> > Bj=F6rn
>=20
> I was under the impression that if you had physical access to the
> console and a default init setup, ctrl-alt-delete would reboot even if
> one wasn't logged in...  perhaps I'm mistaken though.

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for pointing that out.  I just tryed it on a test system and it
worked fine.

Cheers,
Rick