Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 16:49:56 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: root@isis.dynip.com Cc: rivers@dignus.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: HELP!!!! Message-ID: <36BE0A83.4D82D496@confusion.net> References: <199902071823.VAA63096@isis.dynip.com>
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Is there a way to keep people from doing this who aren't supposed to? Like if I set up a BSD box in a library and someone knows how to do that, is there a way to stop them? (Or do I just put a password on the BIOS so they can't reboot fully?)
root@isis.dynip.com wrote:
> On 7 Feb, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> >>
> >> We are a small ISP in NW Arkansas, at one of our customers sites we have installed a FreeBSD server as their firewall, www proxy and mail server. As you can see from the attachment below we made a mistake and gave them the root password. Do you have any suggestions on recovering the root password short of re-installing the system. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Yes -
> >
> > You can boot the system in single user mode (type "-s" no quotes
> > at the boot prompt.)
> >
> > From there, you can set the root password.
> >
> > You'll need to:
> >
> > mount -u /
> > mount /usr
> > passwd root
> >
> >
> You forgot to tel him
> NEVER give away your ROOT password, even to your mother.
> infact, never give away any password, on the net, be paranoid.
> Never know WHO ?? is watching. examples ,,,
>
> NSA (LEAST OF YOUR CONCERN IF NOT DOING SOMETHING REALLY BAD)
> Hackers.com
> etc,,,,
>
> hussssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhh
>
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