On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:31, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 6:10 pm, ed tharp wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:55, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: > > > > Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset > > > > any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or > > > > any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it? > > > > > > > > James S. Lawson > > > > Network Administrator > > > > > > The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer > > > up in Single User mode and reset root password from there. You > > > should be able to do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to > > > bring up Linux in single user mode. > > > > > > If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can > > > reset the root password without some type of reinstall. > > > > and you can password protect the BIOS. and lock the door to the > > room the box is held in. > > Perhaps I'm being thick, but I thought he was concerned about > passwords in his windows partition? > > Anne >
and wanted to change them. Which is why I recommended TRK. It could be done with a Mandrake disk if you were exceedingly clever and knew what you wanted to do, but Trinity Rescue Kit has prebuilt tools for this task -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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