Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 21:03:57 -0800 (PST) From: casaubon@cybercable.net.mx To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/17240: Lost the root password of an OLD machine Message-ID: <200003070503.VAA22186@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 17240 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Lost the root password of an OLD machine >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 6 21:10:01 PST 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Fernando Casaubon >Release: 2.0.1 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: Well, I have a HD with FreeBSD installed, but since the box where I was running it crashed for good long ago (about 5 years ago) so I had the HD in a drawer til today, when I got a project to get that HD up and running and get the info I have in it up again. My problem is... I forgot the root password and the only password I remember is of an account that is not in the wheel group, no read access to /etc/master.passwd. The single user boot of that system is read only access and I cannot edit master.passwd and to make it worse, the machine is not longer in the same net, so I need root password to change the configuration. Any ideas? Thanks bunches. >How-To-Repeat: Turn the box on. >Fix: How to get the root password of an old box >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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