From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 10 20:44:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org 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 F377216A407 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:44:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp111.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp111.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E1F043D58 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:44:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 23611 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2006 20:44:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@70.131.105.213 with login) by smtp111.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Oct 2006 20:44:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D215A for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:44:31 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from mail.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id S04dbLMqgdTV for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:44:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCCE554 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:44:28 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <452C062B.5000605@mikestammer.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:44:27 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <180722FAFBF7C548AE587D81D0107E6A03826761@flanmbxm1.uaig.net> In-Reply-To: <180722FAFBF7C548AE587D81D0107E6A03826761@flanmbxm1.uaig.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Creating a Super user Account X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:44:35 -0000 alena eckert wrote: > Hello, > > > > I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only > employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows > this employees id or password to update information. Can you please > advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user > account without this information? > can you just ask the employee his password? there are ways to do this, but not without at least a little bit of FreeBSD/UNIX experience. How comfortable are you with working in the BSD environment with boot CDs, etc? Eric