From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 19:22:00 2005 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 E0C2416A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:22:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from helium.webpack.hosteurope.de (helium.webpack.hosteurope.de [217.115.142.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BBC43D1D for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:22:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from me@hexren.net) Received: by helium.webpack.hosteurope.de running Exim 4.34 using asmtp helo=hexren.steenbuck.net) id 1ClXmB-0006rp-BW; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 20:21:59 +0100 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:21:58 +0100 From: Hexren X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62i) Business X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <7518857735.20050103202158@hexren.net> To: daniel@mndr.com In-Reply-To: <1500.24.199.44.89.1104779379.spork@webmail.mndr.com> References: <1500.24.199.44.89.1104779379.spork@webmail.mndr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Please X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Hexren List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:22:01 -0000 dmc> ANYONE: dmc> I have a huge problem. Our systems admin at my work went nuts and locked dmc> us out of our BSD 5.0 server. He has disabled anyone's su privs. dmc> Additionally, we cannot boot into single user mode without entering the dmc> root password. How can I get around this without losing any data on the dmc> server? dmc> ARGH!, dmc> Daniel --------------------------------------------- Take the HDD out of the server , hook it up to another Computer, mount it there, change the files which hold passwords, put it back into the server, boot.