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On  7 Feb, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
>> 
>> We are a small ISP in NW Arkansas, at one of our customers sites we have installed a FreeBSD server as their firewall, www proxy and mail server. As you can see from the attachment below we made a mistake and gave them the root password. Do you have any suggestions on recovering the root password short of re-installing the system. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
>  Yes - 
> 
>   You can boot the system in single user mode (type  "-s"  no quotes
> at the boot prompt.)
> 
>   From there, you can set the root password.
> 
>   You'll need to:
> 
> 	mount -u /
> 	mount /usr
> 	passwd root
> 
> 
You forgot to tel him
NEVER give away your ROOT password, even to your mother.
infact, never give away any password, on the net, be paranoid.
Never know WHO ?? is watching. examples ,,,

NSA (LEAST OF YOUR CONCERN IF NOT DOING SOMETHING REALLY BAD)
Hackers.com
etc,,,,

hussssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhh


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