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Subject: misc/17240: Lost the root password of an OLD machine
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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:


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