From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 10:55: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sdsl-216-36-101-146.dsl.chi.megapath.net (sdsl-216-36-101-146.dsl.chi.megapath.net [216.36.101.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3157837B40D for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 34742 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 13:21:24 -0000 Received: from apu.five.sight (HELO apu.five.sight.fivesight.com) (lucas@192.168.0.102) by wiggum.five.sight with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 13:21:24 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15312.10451.962599.3542@apu.five.sight> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:21:23 -0500 To: "Purwa Riadi" Cc: From: Lucas Bergman Subject: Password Recovery In-Reply-To: <003901c1588b$eabbd000$ab5b96ca@padjajaran> References: <003901c1588b$eabbd000$ab5b96ca@padjajaran> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under Emacs 20.7.1 Reply-To: lucas@fivesight.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > My server ( 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE), the password for root > is missing. And, I cant get the correct password. I was try many > programs in C from packetstorm.securify.com but still cant get the > solve. The main problem is that my server cant be stopped because > the server is very important for my network. Unless the password is weak, you're not going to be able to get at it in a very short period of time. (After all, if you could crack the root password using some program off the Internet, then that would mean any of your users could do the same thing. That would be bad.) If you have physical access to the machine, you can reboot it and drop into single user mode to change root's password. This is covered in the FAQ. > > [ ... ] Please don't do that. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message