Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:29:20 +0100 From: Julien Gormotte <gormi456@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PASSWORD LOST!! Message-ID: <4B751F70.8060402@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201002120124.o1C1OS3o015060@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <0B47F5A9-A603-408F-A727-E81739E539C5@andersonbrothers.biz> <201002091059.27019.mike.jeays@rogers.com> <b79ecaef1002091144g6014eb0ak75955f63c82a4b4b@mail.gmail.com> <b121fe571002111714l2529f57bndd63d0d6ac404363@mail.gmail.com> <201002120124.o1C1OS3o015060@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Le 12/02/2010 02:24, Olivier Nicole a écrit : >>>> If you have physical access to the server, just reboot it in single user >>>> >>> mode, >>> >>>> and change the password. You might need to forcibly power it off. It is >>>> >>> all >>> >>>> covered in the handbook. If you don't have physical access, I think you >>>> >>> may >>> >>>> be out of luck... >>>> >>>> >>> May be out of luck? I would hope he is totally out of luck without >>> physical access, if >>> you get my drift! >>> >>> Hope you do have physical access Eric.... >>> >>> >> May not be out of luck depending on if the machine has had the last couple >> of years worth of updates. I'm guessing not if nobody has the root password >> and the persom who had set it up in the first place has been MIA for who >> knows how long. >> > I was thinking along the same lines, but at same time Eric didn't know > about booting to single user, so would he be able to remotely hack > into his own system? > > Olivier > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If this is a dedicated server (or a VPS, or RPS, or any type of server hosted by a server provider), you may have a rescue system, so you can boot it and chroot yourself to access the system. Or, in some cases, you can have a KVM-over-IP access, so you can boot into single user mode.
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