Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 09:11:05 -0600 From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> To: "'jim@lust.geekhouse.net'" <jim@lust.geekhouse.net>, Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: lost root password Message-ID: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E76D@exchange.panasonicfa.com>
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Jim, The situation is more complicated... As far as I told in my previous e-mail: Single User mode is also password protected, and floppy & CD-ROM is not accessible. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Mock [mailto:jim@lust.geekhouse.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 7:51 PM To: Ken Bolingbroke Cc: Zaitsau, Andrei; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: lost root password 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: 1) Reboot the machine. 2) Press a key other than enter. 3) Type boot -s at the prompt. 4) When it asks which shell to use, hit enter. 5) At the root prompt, do "mount -u /". 6) Run "mount -a". 7) Run "passwd root" and change the password. See http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW for the FAQ entry. - jim -- jim mock <jim@jmock.com> work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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