Recovering root password from a drive by mounting the cdrom
Mukarram Syed
muksyed at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 6 17:35:06 UTC 2008
Hi,
I am totally new to freebsd and as a Unix admin (not a freebsd unix admin though), I have to recover a lost root password from a freebsd drive.
I need your help!
I have booted up from a freebsd install cd 1. I have connected my freebsd drive in the system. Now I don't know how to mount the drive to edit the /etc/shadow file.
I am at the fixit prompt on the cd.
Can anyone help. I have tried googling this for the past hour with no luck.
Is there anyother way to do this? I can't login using single user mode though.
thanks much
# mukarram
Mukarram Syed
muksyed at yahoo.com
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