Date: Mon, 28 Aug 95 16:50 CDT From: malenovi@cview.com (Nik Malenovic) To: LPPelletier@cmq.qc.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console insecure Message-ID: <m0snC4H-0001IwC@tesla.cview.com> In-Reply-To: <DE1Ipw.6s3@cview.com>
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In article <DE1Ipw.6s3@cview.com> you write: [snip] >The guy who forgot his root password -Lpp >P.S. If I can't use the -s option, is there an other solution other than >reinstall? blah. some people do not have any imagination whatsoever ;-) reboot the machine, when it starts mounting disks, ctrl-C it or ctrl-\ when you get '#' prompt, edit /etc/passwd, remove second ':' delimited field - thus removing root password. reboot. login as root, no password and do not, I repeat do not forget to reset root passwd. blah - what a little imagination can do :-) Nik -- sin.com - Proudly running FreeBSD 2.0.5 486DX2/50 32 Mb RAM 1.5Gb SCSI Look at what Linux did - it made everyone aware of Unices, but it has put back the development of Unix-based OS for decades to come. Dont' ask what your PC can do for you, but what you can do for your PC - nuke Linux!
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