From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 19: 8:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C67314EE3 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 19:08:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA12980; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:07:21 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:07:21 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Kirk Letourneau Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password Hack In-Reply-To: <000001bf1a9e$8101d880$0200000a@desktop> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Kirk Letourneau wrote: > I'm looking for a program to help me recover a lost root user password. Any > suggestions? KL For FreeBSD this is not required (since you can go to single user mode, and reset the password). For UNIX systems in general, what you need to do is to boot off alternative media - tape, floppy, CDROM, what-have-you; installation media usually provides you with the ability to do this. The vendor should be able to supply you with some form of boot media as well. You then load the drives, wipe the root password, reboot normally and reset the root password. Cheers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Chen | Opportunites are seldom labeled --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message