Creating a Super user Account
Hello, I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user account without this information? Thank you in advance, Alena (305) 940-7299 ext. 2422 This email is confidential and it is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the named addressee, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by a Reply. If this email is addressed to or sent by an attorney, this email is either an attorney-client privileged communication or a work-product privileged communication, or both. The United Automobile Insurance Company as well as the sender and intended recipient of this email expressly reserve any and all rights to assert the aforesaid privileges, and do not waive any such rights thereto by virtue of an erroneous email transmission. This statement shall not hereafter be construed as limiting the assertion of any additional and further legal rights that the parties may have to limit or prohibit any further dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this email. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a Super user Account
alena eckert wrote: Hello, I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user account without this information? can you just ask the employee his password? there are ways to do this, but not without at least a little bit of FreeBSD/UNIX experience. How comfortable are you with working in the BSD environment with boot CDs, etc? Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a Super user Account
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:57:54PM -0400, alena eckert wrote: Hello, I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user account without this information? Have a look at the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny - Kin Hubbard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a Super user Account
alena eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user account without this information? The is a Frequently Asked Question: I have forgotten the root password! What do I do? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW This email is confidential and it is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the named addressee, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by a Reply. That entity is a public e-mail list, and as such, the whole message will be archived permanently on hundreds of web sites... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a Super user Account
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:57:54PM -0400, alena eckert wrote: Hello, I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user account without this information? Look up information on booting in to single user mode. When you do this, you are effectively in root at the console with no network services or extra stuff running. Then, you merely need to: make sure the filesystems are clean - fsck(8) remount root with reae/write permission - mount(8) mount other filesystems you might need - mount(8) might as well turn on swap space- swapon(8) eg. fsck -p mount -u / mount -a swapon -a At this point you can use vipw(8) to add an account and passwd(1) to set or change passwords. vipw is a special version of the 'vi' editor that handles the passwd file. It takes care of locks, and updating the master passwd file and the password database so you don't have to do anything with them by hand. The editing rules in vipw are the same as in regular vi. The ideal thing is to copy the line with the root account on it and then dup it. Change the id name field and possible the home directory if you want to keep them separate. Then once you get out of vipw with a 'ESC : w q' (no spaces, I just put them there to be clear) which cause the changes to be written to the file, you then need to run passwd to set a password on the new account. passwd newid follow the prompts. Then, edit the /etc/group file and put your regular non-root id in the wheel group - just add it on the end of the list if any with a comma separating it from previous ones. Then, reboot. shutdown -r now log in as your regular id - that you just added to wheel group. then su to the new root id to do root work. su newid then give the newid password when it asks. When you get done with the work, leave the root account by typing exit at a system shell prompt This is better and a small amount more secure than setting a password on the regular root account. But, you can just put a password on the root account and su to it - just do the su without an id on the line. jerry Thank you in advance, Alena (305) 940-7299 ext. 2422 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
