On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 01:47:55AM +0000, gs_stol...@juno.com wrote: > > > ____________________________________________________________ > NetZero now offers 4G mobile broadband. Sign up now. > http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT1
> > I have 2 FreeBSD systems (they are using versions 4.3 and 4.7 of the > FreeBSD Operating System) that I have not used for a long time, and I have > forgotten their passwords. I have information on these systems that I want > to retrieve but I have not been able to log into these Systems. My problem > was put on the internet several years ago and the usual ways of getting into > the systems (basically by being the operator) were suggested and tried, > unsuccressfully. A friend and I discussed my problem and he suggested that I > zero out the root password so that I can get in as rooy (to set a new > password and then continue operating as root). > Does the FreeBSD community have a program (either on a floppy or a CD > ROM, preferably the latter) that can do this? If not, I suggest that you > write one that would work with all the (formats of) password files that have > ever been used. If it can determine the format of password files just by > examining them, that would be fine. If it can't, then it should ask the user > in which version of the FreeBSD Operating System the password file was used, > try to verify it by the structure of the password file and if it is verified > make a copy of the password file (in case something goes wrong, so that the > system can be restored to its original condition and so undo anything that > this program has done), and zero out the root password. After this is done, > one could log in as root to set the root password and afterwards (as root) > set other user passwords. > > Operating Systems that have ever been run. > You could set it up to look Hello, You can follow the steps detailed here[1] to reset your root password. [1]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#idp75977264 Regards. Victor. -- La prueba más fehaciente de que existe vida inteligente en otros planetas, es que no han intentado contactar con nosotros. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
