Re: PASSWORD LOST!!
Le 12/02/2010 02:24, Olivier Nicole a écrit : If you have physical access to the server, just reboot it in single user mode, and change the password. You might need to forcibly power it off. It is all covered in the handbook. If you don't have physical access, I think you may be out of luck... May be out of luck? I would hope he is totally out of luck without physical access, if you get my drift! Hope you do have physical access Eric May not be out of luck depending on if the machine has had the last couple of years worth of updates. I'm guessing not if nobody has the root password and the persom who had set it up in the first place has been MIA for who knows how long. I was thinking along the same lines, but at same time Eric didn't know about booting to single user, so would he be able to remotely hack into his own system? Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org If this is a dedicated server (or a VPS, or RPS, or any type of server hosted by a server provider), you may have a rescue system, so you can boot it and chroot yourself to access the system. Or, in some cases, you can have a KVM-over-IP access, so you can boot into single user mode. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PASSWORD LOST!!
Le 12/02/2010 15:19, Adam Vande More a écrit : On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:05 AM, John j...@starfire.mn.org mailto:j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: People, people - be careful that we are not creating a formula to break into FreeBSD servers around the world... The only acceptable solution is for someone in Eric's organization to secure physical access to the server. It may be in a co-lo situation, but if that's true, they must have a contract open and, if nothing else, they terminate the contract and get the machine back, though more likely, the contract allows them supervised access. Machines are not perfect - even without losing the root password, they break and need maintenance - this is a MAINTENANCE event and should be treated as such, just like a hard drive failure or a NIC failure. Creating a scheme for someone to break into FreeBSD systems remotely or to publicize schemes people have created to remotely manage their systems in ways that could be used to compromise them is foolishness! Regardless of the purity of his intention, Eric is asking us to tell him how to break into our homes or steal our cars. ;) Security through obscurity is no security, hence it is a good exercise. -- Adam Vande More I have to agree. Plus, these ways of setting root password are not breaking into the server. If you have a KVM over IP, it is like physical access. And rescue disks are used for these kinds of situation (among others, like kernel config errors and such). These methods are just what they are : recovery methods. In a dedicated server situation, you are supposed to be the only one to have access to the rescue systems. If we were discussing about gainig root privileges from a normal user account, or remotely (using security holes in php scripts, or in CGI, or... any other thing...), your complaint would somehow make sense (but in fact, it wouldn't, because these security holes don't have to be hidden, they have to be corrected). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing
John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com a écrit : Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... Don't need sound card or anything complex... if I can get it working good enough to have access to IE 6, 7, and 8 (with 3 different virtual boxes, probably), that would be enough for me. But before I jump through the hoops of setting up a new FreeBSD box and setting up this virtual box software, I'd like to hear how others have fared with this software. Any experience, much appreciated. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org It seems that VirtualBox still has problems, according to the FreeBSD wiki : http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox Maybe you should try qemu instead, as it seems much more stable now : http://wiki.freebsd.org/qemu I used qemu to virtualize Windows Server 2003 some time ago (on Gentoo and Mandriva boxes), and it was working (as long as you consider that a Windows system works). Julien Gormotte This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.
Roger rno...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I have FreeBSD 7.2-p4 I wonder if maybe there is an easier way. The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a separate slice. Any input, advice, tips etc would be very welcomed. (trying to be prepared before attempting anything) Thank you, -r ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org AFAIK, it's not possible to install a BSD system from a linux system. I searched some time, and it does not seem to be possible. Finally, I used mfsBSD to install. I booted on a rescue disk (Linux), then, I did : dd if=mfsBSD.img | ssh remotehost dd of=/dev/sda Then, a reboot, and I accessed the system via ssh. Julien Gormotte This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
