From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 12 09:59:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D58106566B for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:59:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gormi456@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f226.google.com (mail-fx0-f226.google.com [209.85.220.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F233E8FC13 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:59:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm26 with SMTP id 26so2178264fxm.13 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:59:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UEJAuUW5eLJwv7Hz9ZtfzTuVEez/nhmSCXQKCdBdT3w=; b=N2WP2mMtfz5UpIV/Y7qMYvHoWY/1jQ1f0mFi2NH8hujKI8mZVSQ/snZkTj1ViuX1MQ JpxWIh0TcIxl0i3Kq35WVmpkt2Tb/AOkB2bMv9VJuvt/NxVmY/4NvxurZ2s/yNw6PD4E jxDo+j3o1t7XWTTNBVsD/FtFTbMU2dyRDiWuI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lBtaXmF3hokGBjxet4+Bpwf8AvfRFlYLSld2pA5XbmLj8kLtyyt5Bu3lYVpYI5XBJ3 vfc7DLmQAvho+52xsc8Iy+E9JTP4Pc1/2u4L2zJ8SqlsOhtYRdRDf1fihTFL2lE0f6p3 v/GxisnFOqx5WyzvrLU5w25bs/8PN2/L4+zTY= Received: by 10.87.51.9 with SMTP id d9mr2262718fgk.35.1265966961812; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:29:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?172.31.35.40? (17-106.206-83.static-ip.oleane.fr [83.206.106.17]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e20sm2046841fga.20.2010.02.12.01.29.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:29:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B751F70.8060402@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:29:20 +0100 From: Julien Gormotte User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <0B47F5A9-A603-408F-A727-E81739E539C5@andersonbrothers.biz> <201002091059.27019.mike.jeays@rogers.com> <201002120124.o1C1OS3o015060@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <201002120124.o1C1OS3o015060@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: PASSWORD LOST!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:59:57 -0000 Le 12/02/2010 02:24, Olivier Nicole a écrit : >>>> If you have physical access to the server, just reboot it in single user >>>> >>> mode, >>> >>>> and change the password. You might need to forcibly power it off. It is >>>> >>> all >>> >>>> covered in the handbook. If you don't have physical access, I think you >>>> >>> may >>> >>>> be out of luck... >>>> >>>> >>> May be out of luck? I would hope he is totally out of luck without >>> physical access, if >>> you get my drift! >>> >>> Hope you do have physical access Eric.... >>> >>> >> May not be out of luck depending on if the machine has had the last couple >> of years worth of updates. I'm guessing not if nobody has the root password >> and the persom who had set it up in the first place has been MIA for who >> knows how long. >> > I was thinking along the same lines, but at same time Eric didn't know > about booting to single user, so would he be able to remotely hack > into his own system? > > Olivier > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If this is a dedicated server (or a VPS, or RPS, or any type of server hosted by a server provider), you may have a rescue system, so you can boot it and chroot yourself to access the system. Or, in some cases, you can have a KVM-over-IP access, so you can boot into single user mode.