hi ya patrick good memory..
and the rest of the various ways... to get our passwd if we dont have a fd or cd or broken lilo or ??? .. http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/Boot.SingleUser.ForgotRootPasswd.txt c ya alvin On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Antonio Mu?oz-Flores wrote: > > > Is there something I can do to recover the root password or for logging > > as the root user without having to reinstall Debian? > > If you didn't create a bootdisk when you installed, download tomsrtbt from > > http://www.toms.net/rb/ > > and create a bootdisk. (It's a useful thing to have around anyway.) > > Then boot the tomsrtbt system, mount your linux partition, edit > /etc/shadow and remove the encrypted root password. Then reboot your > system, login as root (which now won't require a password), and use > 'passwd' to reset root's password. > > This is all from memory and untested!! > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]