From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 10:11:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B7D16A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:11:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zephon.secspace.de (zephon.secspace.de [62.75.136.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16CB43D2D for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:11:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml@ps102.de) Received: from ariel.office.volker.de (pD9E1C4CB.dip.t-dialin.net [217.225.196.203]) by zephon.secspace.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DFF96EB20; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:11:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:11:59 +0200 From: Volker Kindermann To: "Per Engelbrecht" Message-ID: <20040922121159.0c4e864e@ariel.office.volker.de> In-Reply-To: <53103.62.242.151.142.1095841227.squirrel@mailbox.wingercom.dk> References: <53103.62.242.151.142.1095841227.squirrel@mailbox.wingercom.dk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: funny customers X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:11:39 -0000 Hi Per, > I'm administering a mid-size serverhosting site and have a problem with > customers enabling root passwd in single-user mode. isn't it possible to boot from a livecd (second FreeBSD CD), mount the partitions, do a chroot to the mounted system and reset the password? But be careful: if you want to bring these cases to court you should document each step and should copy the original discs to other disks (make checksums before and after) and work with these other disks. -volker