[Tfug] Cracking a root password?

[Neil Short]

on FreeBSD you just boot into single user mode and run
passwd root
.

--- Christopher Robbins <robbinsc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I could Google that all day, but I was wondering if
> anyone had any
> off-the-cuff, easy (ha!) ways to get the root
> password of a box.
> 
> I don't have the old admin around, so I gotta start
> plugging away at this
> one on my own.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> TIA
> 
>    - Chris
> 
> -- 
> Chris Robbins
> Systems Programmer
> Department of English - University of Arizona
> http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net
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