From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 27 13:09:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D0816A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:09:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.revolutionsp.com (ganymede.revolutionsp.com [64.246.0.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F284743D2F for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:09:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from klr@6s-gaming.com) Received: from mail.revolutionsp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.revolutionsp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1210915D15; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 04:05:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from 81.84.175.77 (SquirrelMail authenticated user klr@6s-gaming.com); by mail.revolutionsp.com with HTTP; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 04:05:49 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <54393.81.84.175.77.1101549949.squirrel@81.84.175.77> In-Reply-To: <1101392541.29769.409.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1101392541.29769.409.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 04:05:49 -0600 (CST) From: klr@6s-gaming.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: Andrew Lewis Subject: Re: Breaking password on FreeBSD 5.2.1 box X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:09:55 -0000 You could always insert a 5.2.1 CD, do a 'Configure' (menu) on /stand/sysinstall, select change root passwd from the menu. > Hi list, > > We have a client running a fBSD 5.2.1 box that needed its root password > hacked. > > I couldn't boot into single user mode w/o the root password, so I > installed fBSD 5.3 on another machine, and slaved the drive from the > 5.2.1 box in mine. > > Then I tried editting its master.passwd file and removing the root > password: didn't work. > > So then I tried setting it to the hash of a password I knew: didn't > work. > > So then I editted /etc/ttys and set 'secure', booted up in single user > mode, ran 'passwd' and it came back with some failure in pam_chauthtok - > I forget the exact message, but it wasn't any more specific than what > I've described. > > What to do now? Did I do something very wrong? :( Please CC your > response to me (non-subscriber)... > > Thanks... > > Best, > -AL. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >