Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:06:15 -0400 From: Rick Preston <rickjpreston@gmail.com> To: Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7 Message-ID: <c4d7bf49050714070642355a37@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45d750d2050714061346aea652@mail.gmail.com> References: <42D58447.9090600@chamkila.org> <20050713213708.GA32730@mezzo.htnsrv.org> <c4d7bf49050713183620c29e48@mail.gmail.com> <42D62FD4.2000501@cs.tu-berlin.de> <45d750d2050714061346aea652@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/14/05, Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/14/05, Bj=F6rn K=F6nig <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Rick Preston wrote: > > > > > I was going to offer something more complicated, thanks for the tip. > > > I came to realize that both our ideas require shutting down the > > > system. What would be the safest way to do that with out causing > > > potential damage to the system, without root access? > > > > Turn it off. It's not safe, but the only way that I know unless you > > don't have a user that is member of the group 'operator'. These users > > are allowed to use the 'shutdown' command with root privileges: > > > > > ls -l /sbin/shutdown > > -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 10148 Jul 11 14:12 /sbin/shutdown > > > > Bj=F6rn >=20 > I was under the impression that if you had physical access to the > console and a default init setup, ctrl-alt-delete would reboot even if > one wasn't logged in... perhaps I'm mistaken though. Hi Aaron, Thanks for pointing that out. I just tryed it on a test system and it worked fine. Cheers, Rick
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