On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 07:50 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2005 18:21 schrieb ext Willie Wong: > > > Your best bet is to get someone your trust to boot into single for you > > and reset the password there. > > Single wouldn't work, You still get a login: prompt. The only ways to get at > it are LiveCD or booting with "init=/bin/bash". > > Bye... > > Dirk
Right. Due to the fact that he got a new password, I think they did it exactly that way (LifeCD or boot disc). There is no official hack to get the password out of the machine. It is nowhere stored in uncrypted form and the crypting algorithm itself is not reversable. 0.02$ Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
