From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 0:46:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.uskonet.com (mail.uskonet.com [196.3.164.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FBBE37BB0C for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Chris.Picton@usko.com) Received: from zero.gia.co.za (hal9000.uskonet.com [196.3.167.186]) by mail.uskonet.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA23785 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:45:30 +0200 (GMT) Received: from usko.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zero.gia.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A1D52FF5 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:44:50 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <393F4EF2.6B55BF14@usko.com> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 09:44:50 +0200 From: Chris Picton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hacking the root password References: <393E9552.4EC0AF4F@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Raymundo M. Vega" wrote: > Chris Wasser wrote: > > > > Won't that only work if the tty isn't set to insecure? ie: > > > > # If console is marked "insecure", then init will ask for > > # the root password when going to single-user mode. > > console none unknown off secure > > > > Original message from: "Raymundo M. Vega" > > >you can reboot in single user mode and do the same thing. > > yes you are right > Thanks for all the responses. I could ctrl-alt-del from the console Also, I had to type kernel -s not boot -s, and my console was 'insecure' :) Thanks again -- Chris Picton Usko Communications Systems Developer Chris.Picton@usko.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message