From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 15:20:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39AF616A4E0 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:20:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from natsmtp00.rzone.de (natsmtp00.rzone.de [81.169.145.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A223043D45 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:20:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrea@ae4u.de) Received: from ae4u.de (mail.engel-kg.com [62.80.41.218]) by post.webmailer.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3TMKZE5018755; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:20:35 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <40919C21.7000304@ae4u.de> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:21:53 +0000 From: "Andrea E." Organization: http://www.ae4u.de/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: HollowMan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20040429213826.53063.qmail@web90102.mail.scd.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040429213826.53063.qmail@web90102.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: user toor ??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:20:37 -0000 if your "normal" user is in group wheel and you have installed sudo, you can call `sudo bash` and then enter the password of the "normal" user, you get a root-shell and can change the password. I do not have try this way myself. So it's not sure. Andrea HollowMan wrote: > Hey > Please i would like to know how i can find out the > password for a root/toor/account from a ssh console! > Please this is really important hence i lost my root > pass for my server and only have a user that works! > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs > http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover > _______________________________________________ > 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" >