[TriLUG] Lost password for FreeBSD box

[Marc]

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, jason at monsterjam.org <jason at monsterjam.org> 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
> >
> >
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