Triluggers, How about a plain Ctrl-alt-del (may be disabled) and when it reboots go to single user mode? If it's a newer FreeBSD version there's a single user mode on the menu if not you can interupt the boot process and use -s. Then just reset the root pwd.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-init.html Matt On Sat, September 2, 2006 8:23 am, Marc wrote: > 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/ >> > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
