Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:58:19 +0300 From: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> To: Lewis Joshua <joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: lost password caused by drunk admin Message-ID: <1325085694.20070417095819@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <9E0E7A6C-BA2A-4EB8-B552-4572EE05C681@familyfunzone.net> References: <9E0E7A6C-BA2A-4EB8-B552-4572EE05C681@familyfunzone.net>
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Hello Lewis, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 4:59:40 AM, you wrote: > Hello FreeBSD List, > Ok I made a huge mistake (insert laugh here because I know you will). > I was working late at home and had more then a few drinks... A lot > more. I was working with a PAP2-NA (Analog to VoIP adapter (ATA)) and > I changed the password. The password that was programed into the unit > from my service provider was a randomly generated password and I was > messing with a lot of the settings and needed to keep logging in. So > I changed it to make my life easier. > So any way I changed the password and now it appears I didn't change > the password to what I had thought I had. The password was a short 4 > digit number. Like I said I just wanted to make my life easier while > I was messing around with it. Now I am locked out of the unit and > TOTALY SOL. My phones don't work at the house because the think has > been set incorrectly. > I don't know how to crack passwords or even where to start. Is there > some kind of script or application I can run on my FreeBSD system to > try every combination of numbers from 0 - 9999. > It is possible I may have fat fingered the number so it could be 6 or > 7 digits instead of the 4 I intended. I don't know. I tried every > variation I can think of and even got drunk again hoping to recreate > the stupid mistake. > I have totally messed that one up. I would have had to type it twice > which just goes to show you should not work on your junk while drunk. > Can anyone help me out? The unit has no reset buttons to reset it to > defaults there is nothing online that I can find to bypass the unit. > I did a port scan and it appears to only be listening on port 80. Any > thoughts out there? Please. > Thanks and I hope I made someone laugh with my mistake because I know > all my friends are. > Thanks. How/over what protocol do you get to wherever it asks for the password? -- Best regards, Ghirai.
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