there single floppy linuxes like tomsrtbt that will run in ram and let you use most linux commands to edit the etc filesDue in parts to brain fog and the remarkable stability of Linux, I've not had to adminster my Linux box for over 8 months. Because of Windows Admin tinkering, my samba server has stopped working and I need to modify it's configuration.
Is there a way I can mount mylinux box (say from a bootable ISO image I'd make) to reset the root user password and not goof up the other accounts that I've been so happily been using?
I'm hoping that combinations of commands like chroot and such will allow me to avoid rebuilding my system.
- Jamie (if I rember correctly)
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I might be wrong on this but as far as I know chroot will ask for root's password you may have to delete root's pass word from /etc/shadow befor you run passwd depending on the distro just deleting root's pass word will get you in as root with no pass word
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