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Date:      Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:36:37 +0000
From:      Benjamin Sobotta <mayday@gmx.net>
To:        daniel@mndr.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help Please
Message-ID:  <1104788196.961.6.camel@rr>
In-Reply-To: <1500.24.199.44.89.1104779379.spork@webmail.mndr.com>
References:  <1500.24.199.44.89.1104779379.spork@webmail.mndr.com>

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Hey!

Disregarding the reason he might have had to take these actions, it
should be easy to solve the problem if you have physical access to the
machine. Just boot from a CD and change to passwords from there.
There is many descriptions out there on how to do that in detail.

HTH,

Ben

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 19:09, daniel@mndr.com wrote:
> ANYONE:
> 
> I have a huge problem.  Our systems admin at my work went nuts and locked
> us out of our BSD 5.0 server.  He has disabled anyone's su privs. 
> Additionally, we cannot boot into single user mode without entering the
> root password.  How can I get around this without losing any data on the
> server?
> 
> ARGH!,
> Daniel
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