Re: One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:49:02AM +0100 I heard the voice of Soeren Straarup, and lo! it spake thus: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:45:30PM -, Derekj Tourneo wrote: > > now edit the master password file > > > > vi /mnt/etc/master.passwd > > Try: vipw -d /mnt/etc > It automaticly updates th

Re: One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: David S. Madole wrote: From Derekj Tourneo on Friday, March 16, 2007 4:46 PM How I recovered a lost root password in FreeBSD Luckily I did know one user name and it had no password. cgadmin going to the repair mode with CDROM/DVD option off the ins

Re: One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-16 Thread Soeren Straarup
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:45:30PM -, Derekj Tourneo wrote: > now edit the master password file > > vi /mnt/etc/master.passwd Try: vipw -d /mnt/etc It automaticly updates the right db(s) Futher reading: man 8 vipw /Soeren -- Soeren Straarup | aka OZ2DAK aka Xride FreeBSD committer

Re: One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
David S. Madole wrote: From Derekj Tourneo on Friday, March 16, 2007 4:46 PM How I recovered a lost root password in FreeBSD Luckily I did know one user name and it had no password. cgadmin going to the repair mode with CDROM/DVD option off the install menu, using the "live" CDROM filesyste

RE: One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-16 Thread David S. Madole
> From Derekj Tourneo on Friday, March 16, 2007 4:46 PM > > How I recovered a lost root password in FreeBSD > > Luckily I did know one user name and it had no password. > cgadmin > > going to the repair mode with CDROM/DVD option off the > install menu, using the "live" CDROM filesystem gave

One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-16 Thread Derekj Tourneo
How I recovered a lost root password in FreeBSD This was on a CyberGuard LX firewall, running version 4.2 BSD Luckily I did know one user name and it had no password. cgadmin Using the boot CD, pick option 4 for single use mode going through the country and keyboard going to the repair mode wi