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Subject: Re: One method to recover a lost root password
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> David S. Madole wrote:
>>> From Derekj Tourneo on Friday, March 16, 2007 4:46 PM
>>> 
>>> How I recovered a lost root password in FreeBSD
>>> 
>>> Luckily I did know one user name and it had no password. cgadmin going to 
>>> the repair mode with CDROM/DVD option off the install menu, using the 
>>> "live" CDROM filesystem gave me a root prompt Fixit#
>
> I am confused why this topic came up on this list..

Because it is a way to hack BSD, obviously. :-)

(It's gotten less frequent, but it used to be that once every few months an 
e-mail would turn up on the list asking about how to hack FreeBSD systems...)

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge