Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:45:28 -0600 From: Ed Stover <estover@nativenerds.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I have found a pc on the side curb Message-ID: <42DED408.80105@nativenerds.com> In-Reply-To: <20050718161725.GB98080@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <000a01c58bab$48991e70$4502a8c0@basement> <20050718154620.GB11703@rtl.org> <20050718161725.GB98080@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:46:20AM -0400, Jason Stewart wrote: > >>There are ways to get into a machine without using the password but >>the only right thing to do in your case would be to reinstall FreeBSD >>and just use the box that way instead of trying to get at the >>pre-existing and most likely private installation. > > > Betcha that defeats his purpose. Its not to have a FreeBSD machine but > to be nosey to find out what is on the one he found. > > With physical access to the system its pretty easy to change the root > password. Is not as if the filesystems are encrypted. Am sure its in the > archives somewhere but I don't intent to make it easy by saying how. > > Is much harder to force change the password without leaving a > significant trail. > Kinda reminds me of what the toor acount was really about.
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