Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 01:47:55 GMT From: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> To: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: pw Message-ID: <20130603.214755.24886.0@webmail02.dca.untd.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
----__JWM__J6ed34e02.a28f112S.21ea087M Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 ____________________________________________________________ NetZero now offers 4G mobile broadband. Sign up now. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=3DNZINTISP0512T4GOUT1 ----__JWM__J6ed34e02.a28f112S.21ea087M Content-Type: text/plain Content-Description: forgot-PW.txt Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="forgot-PW.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have 2 FreeBSD systems (they are using versions 4.3 and 4.7 of the Fr= eeBSD Operating System) that I have not used for a long time, and I have= forgotten their passwords. I have information on these systems that I = want to retrieve but I have not been able to log into these Systems. My= problem was put on the internet several years ago and the usual ways of= getting into the systems (basically by being the operator) were suggest= ed and tried, unsuccressfully. A friend and I discussed my problem and = he suggested that I zero out the root password so that I can get in as r= ooy (to set a new password and then continue operating as root). Does the FreeBSD community have a program (either on a floppy or a CD R= OM, preferably the latter) that can do this? If not, I suggest that you= write one that would work with all the (formats of) password files that= have ever been used. If it can determine the format of password files = just by examining them, that would be fine. If it can't, then it should= ask the user in which version of the FreeBSD Operating System the passw= ord file was used, try to verify it by the structure of the password fil= e and if it is verified make a copy of the password file (in case someth= ing goes wrong, so that the system can be restored to its original condi= tion and so undo anything that this program has done), and zero out the = root password. After this is done, one could log in as root to set the = root password and afterwards (as root) set other user passwords. Operating Systems that have ever been run. You could set it up to look ----__JWM__J6ed34e02.a28f112S.21ea087M--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20130603.214755.24886.0>