On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, horst wrote: > > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:37:51 +0000 > > From: Jeff Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ..> > > town about getting the password changed, so, I can check and start using > > the > .. > > Any other ideas I can try ??? > > Another, bootloader/platform in depended hack would employ a boot CD, like > Knoppix.
Knoppix is a good choice. You should always keep a copy around for just this reason. > - Boot from CD and become root (just 'su' + rtn) > - mount HD to /mnt/hda1 (or whatever) > - cd /mnt/hda1/etc/ > - Make a backup with date stamp: > cp -p shadow shadow.yyyymmdd // or whatever name you like > - Find an encrypted pwd by using Knoppix' passwd: > passwd // enter a pwd of your choice twice > - Add above, encrypted pwd to the real shadow: > grep root /etc/shadow >> shadow > just 'grep root /etc/shadow' displays the new encrypted pwd > - use an editor to remove the old root pwd line > 'vi shadow' or 'pico shadow' I is simpler to simply remove the password field. The fields in the passwd/shadow file are delimited by colons. You want the second field. I assume you have shadowed passwords (close to universal these days). The password field in /etc/passwd is "x". The real data is the second field in /etc/shadow. Find the root entry. Clear out the second field on that line. You will then be able to login as root without a password. Using my system as an example: root:$1$jATW$OucT6G46m8FnvmgZj/:12733:0:99999:7::: becomes root::12733:0:99999:7::: Your first order of business after logging in should be to assign a new root password. :-) -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually for me, television can only be improved by not looking at it. --- Edward Teller > When you now boot from the HD the above entered password should let you > in. > There maybe other ways how you can hack it from a bootable CD. > > Good luck .................. Horst > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
