From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 5:56:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from joule.excelsus.com (joule.excelsus.net [209.96.190.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A17F37B407 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 05:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (weldon@localhost) by joule.excelsus.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9JCuMg83718; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:56:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from weldon@joule.excelsus.com) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:56:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Weldon S Godfrey 3 To: Purwa Riadi Cc: Subject: Re: Password Recovery In-Reply-To: <003901c1588b$eabbd000$ab5b96ca@padjajaran> Message-ID: <20011019085129.E83187-100000@joule.excelsus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you are lucky and your console hasn't been "secured" you can do this: CTRL-ATL-DELETE - reboot When it comes up to say "Hit [Enter] to boot ... or press any key" Press any key At the ok prompt, type "boot -s" At the # (sh prompt) mount / mount /usr then /usr/bin/passwd root (new password) [Control-D] Have fun. If my memory serves me right, sometime around Today, Purwa Riadi told me: > Dear FreeBSDers,... > > > I am new user in FreeBSD but I have found the problem that make me > headache.. > My server ( 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE), the password for root is > missing. And, I cant get the correct password. I was try many programs in C > from packetstorm.securify.com but still cant get the solve. The main problem > is that my server cant be stopped because the server is very important for > my network. > > Maybe, anyone who can help me.....pls. > > Best regard > > Purwa R. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message