Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:22:22 +0200 From: Andrew Lewis <al@xms.co.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Breaking password on FreeBSD 5.2.1 box Message-ID: <1101392541.29769.409.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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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.
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