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Date:      Thu, 7 Jul 2005 10:12:12 -0400
From:      Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?=E0=A4=B6=E0=A4=82=E0=A4=A4=E0=A4=A8=E0=A5=81_=28Shantanoo=29?= <shantanoo@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, billy gates <billy_gates05@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: root passwd
Message-ID:  <45d750d20507070712791783eb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <23017470050707070341b5971b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20050706224315.98375.qmail@web32004.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <23017470050707070341b5971b@mail.gmail.com>

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On 7/7/05, शंतनु (Shantanoo) <shantanoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/7/05, billy gates <billy_gates05@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > can you help me to get root passwd without boot loader?(may be software for windows or linux)
> 
> password is stored as the md5 of the string. can't be reverse engineered.
> 
> Regards,
> Shantanoo

Of course, you can change the root password if you have physical
access to the machine.  Boot into single user mode, "mount -a", and
use the "passwd" command to make a new password.

help

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