if you're chrooted under /tmp (as it sounds from your email) you're out
of luck, unless you have a way to escape the chroot due to a
misconfiguration of that environment in the first place.
Easiest way to reset a lost UNIX password is boot from a "live CD" (eg:
knoppix) .. mount the / partition of your hard drive (eg: mnt -t ext2
/dev/hda1 /mnt) then do "chroot /mnt" and execute "passwd root" from in
there.
Then exit the chroot, umount /mnt, and reboot.
Viola'
Cheers,
Michael Holstein CISSP GCIA
Cleveland State University
Mockbee, Tom wrote:
I am logged in as a regular user but have root permission in the tmp
directory through a different shell. I am stuck as to what is my next
move to be able to change the root users password to one I know. Any help?
Tom
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