On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:51:43 -0700 "Kevin Ross" <ke...@familyross.net> wrote:
> > From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:45 PM > > > > > > Boot from a Live or Rescue CD, mount your / partition, edit the > /etc/shadow > > file, and delete the password for root. Reboot without the CD, > > and login with root with no password. Immediately create a > > password with the > "passwd" > > command. > > > > Oh, and just in case you're not familiar with editing the shadow > file, when I say to delete the password for root, I don't mean > deleting the entire line. I mean removing the encrypted password > between the first and second ":", so the two colons are right >next > to each other. When you're done, the line with "root" in it will > look something like this: > > root::13725:0:99999:7::: > > Hope this helps! > -- Kevin > I downloaded and burned a Knoppix 6.0.1 CD, and booted from it. The hard drives in the machine are SCSI Software RAID, already mounted by Knoppix ... but I can't read the drives -- Raquel ============================================================ The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it. --President Jimmy Carter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
