From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 14:54:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA00426 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:54:15 -0700 Received: from tesla.cview.com (tesla.cview.com [204.95.57.17]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA00414 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:54:11 -0700 Received: by tesla.cview.com (Smail3.1.29.0 #1) id m0snC4H-0001IwC; Mon, 28 Aug 95 16:50 CDT Message-Id: Date: Mon, 28 Aug 95 16:50 CDT From: malenovi@cview.com (Nik Malenovic) To: LPPelletier@cmq.qc.ca Subject: Re: Console insecure Newsgroups: cview.freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: Organization: CView Inc. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In article 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!