Stig Brautaset wrote:
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
| I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I
| used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush*
The easiest way is to borrow a head and keyboard from somewhere and
boot into "single" user mode. Hmm, now if you had a way to reboot ...
I know that this is a solution but I don't have a keyboard. I have a
screen I could use, but I really don't want to buy a new keyboard just
to do this... (my friends all have ps/2 keyboards, whilst my machine
uses the old din-style).
Regards, Stig
If you have the correct cables and another computer, you could use
something like Tom's Root Boot disk (www.toms.net/rb/) to start a serial
console and change the password that way. You won't even need to be
concerned with the NIC driver. I don't know if Tom's RBD supports serial
login by default but it should be very easy to add. LNX-BBC
(www.lnx-bbc.org) supports serial login but you'd need to be able to
burn a CD and it might be overkill for this purpose (though it's always
handy to have around). I can send you a tom's disk image with serial
login support if this is an option for you.
p.s. - This is just one example why it's a good idea to enable serial
console support for any headless machine. :-)
