On Friday 30 September 2005 02:02 pm, J.A. wrote: > I have a separate gateway/firewall (in.thesame.net) but I forgot the > user name and password. It was setup with openna.com security procedures > about four years ago. openna.com mentions nothing (I didn't see it) about securing your BIOS or boot loader. This means that you can download knoppix and boot it (assuming you have a bootable cdrom, you may need to change bios settings).
Once knoppix is up and running, find the device that contains your firewall's filesystem. If the filesystem is on multiple partitions, then mount them as they would be on the live system. Assuming /dev/hda3 is your primary partition, perform the following: # mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 # chroot /mnt/hda3 # passwd ... type your new password, twice to verify If it complains, you may need to have proc mounted. If so, you can do this: mount -t proc none /mnt/hda3/proc These are a little bit generalized, but I hope it helps. Robert Larson -- gentoo-security@gentoo.org mailing list
