From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 22:36:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FDEE16A41F for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:36:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Received: from mail.nativenerds.com (host-70-0-111-24.midco.net [24.111.0.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C226543D46 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:36:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Received: from [192.168.1.89] (host-133-35-230-24.midco.net [24.230.35.133]) by mail.nativenerds.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6KMrW3i028654; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:53:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Message-ID: <42DED408.80105@nativenerds.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:45:28 -0600 From: Ed Stover Organization: Native Nerds User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kelly References: <000a01c58bab$48991e70$4502a8c0@basement> <20050718154620.GB11703@rtl.org> <20050718161725.GB98080@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <20050718161725.GB98080@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.85.1/984/Tue Jul 19 03:16:09 2005 on mail.nativenerds.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mail.nativenerds.com Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I have found a pc on the side curb X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: estover@nativenerds.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:36:59 -0000 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.