From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 02:50:47 2005 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 1560916A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 02:50:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5B143D55 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 02:50:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from replies@shaw.ca) Received: from pd5mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.181]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ICP00DVDEKMOF10@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:50:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd5mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ICP00DFVEKMLYI0@pd5mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:50:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from Fullersoffice (S0106000c6ec754cd.va.shawcable.net [70.70.75.80])2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:50:46 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:50:53 -0800 From: Replies To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <001d01c51ed2$a6afc630$504b4646@Fullersoffice> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Help!Help!Help! 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: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 02:50:47 -0000 Hi, I have just spent over the last two years developing a unique classified = ads service which was online and had Free BSD as the security on it. We = ended up with a very aggressive and belligerent programmer who left us = but left us some nasty little bugs behind to really screw us up.. who we = now can't find.=20 I need to know how to change or eliminate a root password.=20 As I still have our "test server" in my possession is there any way to = actually remove the folder that the passwords are held in.....the reason = I ask this is that when we actually changed the password on our = "production server" it released some sort of worm that totally crashed = and eliminated our online site, and all our data we have spent two years = developing. It also started trying to access other sites which we only = found out about this when our site crashed and we got compalints our = from our ISP that our server was trying to agressively access other = servers out there on the net. The Only saving grace is that we had it all backed up on our test server = but it has the same problem...I expect...I believe that he has probably = left us the same worm in our test server....the unfortunate thing is = that because we do not know the root password we are worried that if we = try to crack or eliminate it the same thing may happen...and then we are = automatically out of business. Is there any way around this....I can prove I am the owner of the = site...the URL and the server and any other information you may need if = necessary.... I really need help as this is 2/12 years work as it stands gone. Thanks God Bless Freddy