Re: Help: Firewall Password Hacked or Forgiven ?

From: John SMith (Jsmith@hotlink.com)
Date: 04/11/03


From: John SMith <Jsmith@hotlink.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:05:52 GMT

Lord.
Boot disk, or redhat cd - rescue mode. chroot /mnt/sysimage and change
or pword.
hopefully u just forgot your password - but do not count on it.

lord wrote:
> I have a problem, my FW based on Redhat 7.3 - iptables do not accept my root
> password, but it works normally. I think that it has been cracked but i
> cannot verify this because i cannot go on it since the root password is not
> that I thought. Root is the only user and the FW do nont accept any
> connection from the outside. Could anyone tell me how to get in. I would
> not to format the pc.
>
> ------------------------------------
> Lorenzo Ivaldi
> E-mail: Lord@dibe.unige.it
> ------------------------------------



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