From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 10:22:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB0215058 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:22:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA59192; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:22:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:22:16 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: "Rak, Simon" Cc: "'Michel Adamus'" , "'Leon Myburgh'" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Root Password Message-ID: <19990603102216.C58665@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <1612A004AAE6D211BE2700A0C9D5CCBF196D21@bass.cpl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <1612A004AAE6D211BE2700A0C9D5CCBF196D21@bass.cpl.com>; from Rak, Simon on Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:16:06AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:16:06AM -0400, Rak, Simon wrote: > That of course only works if the system console has not been labeled > 'insecure' in /etc/ttys. If it has, it will be a lot more difficult. It should be a little harder, but not too bad. You should be able to boot your distribution media (CD-ROM or floppy), go into "Fixit" mode, mount your disk, and clear root's password. -- Matthew Hunt * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message