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Happened to me relatively recently, actually. Had an encrypted machine that hadn't been rebooted in months. No backups (it's not production related, just a pers
by aspensmonster 13y ago
Happened to me relatively recently, actually. Had an encrypted machine that hadn't been rebooted in months. No backups (it's not production related, just a personal box, but still). Power outage hits. MFW when I can't remember the login after trying for an hour:
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- atmosx 13y agoHappened to me too. I got this freebsd server, I use ssh keys to login. But I hadn't login for a while, so I couldn't remember the user's password (which gave access to 'root' via sudo). After 37 tries, I hit nailed it! I was that close from re-installing the system. It had automated backups so, no big deal... Just two-three hours (maybe more) would be lost.
- mike-cardwell 13y agoIf that was a Linux box, I would have booted into single user mode and changed the password. Or temporarily mounted the hard drive in a different machine and modified /etc/shadow directly. I assume you can do something similar in FreeBSD? Quicker then a re-install.
- atmosx 13y agoYes you're totally right. The machine was/is a embedded low consumption headless server, but you can do that using a FreeBSD image and VMware.