One way to do it is with a brute force password cracking application. The last one I ran was lophcrack (or l0phtcrack), that is an old one but I am sure there are new and improved ones although I am not sure which (john the ripper maybe?). Google for 'brute force'. Point the app to that ip address on your local network. It will return a list of all passwords on that machine.
Marc On 9/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
thats what FAQs are for. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW Jason On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 07:24:41PM -0400, Kevin Flanagan wrote: > Hi all, > > > A co-worker of mine needs to go to another office of our employer > next week to get some data off of a Free BSD system. We don't know the > hardware so that complicates it a bit. The current staff have no idea > what the root password is, apparently the admin for the system is no > longer employed there, and he was the sole tech person. My co-worker be > breaking in to the system, resetting the password and getting some data > off of it. What I'm looking for is any tips that folks may have about > tools to take, etc. > > > We do have physical access to the box, and it's on the network. I > hope that it's as simple as booting Knoppix to edit /etc/shadow and go, > but it's been so long since I messed with any BSD flavors that I don't know. > > > Any tips would be appreciated. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Kevin > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- ================================================ | Jason Welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://monsterjam.org DSS PGP: 0x5E30CC98 | | gpg key: http://monsterjam.org/gpg/ | ================================================ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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