From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 23:32:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sloth.wcug.wwu.edu (sloth.wcug.wwu.edu [140.160.184.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 532C237B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:32:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 475 invoked by uid 1089); 8 Sep 2000 06:32:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Sep 2000 06:32:56 -0000 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:32:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Johnson To: David Daugherty Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Basic access from console In-Reply-To: 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 Thu, 7 Sep 2000, David Daugherty wrote: > Is there any way for me to gain access to a 3.4 box's file system without > knowing any login passwords or accounts other then root? I have console > access so I suppose I could boot into single user mode. But I'm not sure > what to do from there. Maybe through the toor account? > > Someone who quit our company recently used this for a development box and > we need to see exactly what code he was working on. > > On a side note, would this be the same for a linux box? Say, maybe debian > or RedHat. > > David Daugherty > david.daugherty@netmanage.com > NetMange - The Bridge to E-Business If you're willing to take the machine down, all you need to do is remove the drive and install it on another machine. You can use disklabel to discover which partitions are present and then mount them. This way, you don't have to worry about permissions or access to the machine. I had to do this recently when dealing with some severe filesystem corruption, and it works quite well. Chris Johnson cjohnson@wcug.wwu.edu WCUG: lather, rinse, repeat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message