From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 20:19: 8 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 20:19:06 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C4937B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 20:19:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from seawolf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@seawolf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.153]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id XAA06794; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:18:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by seawolf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id XAA06181; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:18:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:18:54 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@seawolf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Jim Mock Cc: Ken Bolingbroke , "Zaitsau, Andrei" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: lost root password In-Reply-To: <20001206175036.A17747@envy.geekhouse.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jim Mock wrote: > On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 at 14:25:01 -0800, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > > It's not all that hard to temporarily (or even permanently) plug a spare > > floppy drive into the machine... The alternative is to "crack" through > > the machine's security. > > This is covered in the FAQ. It has nothing to do with "cracking" the > machine's security. And why would he need a floppy? All you need to do > is: You must have missed that he said "Single user mode is also password protected. " Which I take to mean that he marked the console as insecure in ttys. Then he is left with connecting a floppy, cdrom drive, or finding a root exploit for whatever version he is running. What version are you running, Andrei? I suppose the other option is to attach a second drive and boot from that, then mount the root partition of the original drive and edit /etc/ttys that way. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message