forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi
Hi to everyone, I've installed sarge on my ibook, but I had some keymap problems http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266691 and an annoying message that forced me to change root's and my user's passwords [1] ([1] By the way is my password too weak or it is a

Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread Carlos Perello Marin
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:30 +0200, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: Hi to everyone, I've installed sarge on my ibook, but I had some keymap problems http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266691 and an annoying message that forced me to change root's and my user's

Re: Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:30 +0200, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: Carlos Perello Marin wrote: Which string shall I pass to yaboot to have a shell... an then... mount /dev/hda3 and erase root's password from /etc/shadow? init=/bin/sh It doesn't work :-( I have yaboot 1.3.13, and this is my

Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread JGuillaume 'IoGuiX' de Rorthais
Hello, Giovanni Ridolfi a écrit : It doesn't work :-( I have yaboot 1.3.13, and this is my screen output boot: init=/bin/sh Please wait, loading kernel... /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3, \\init=/bin/sh : No such file or directory boot: it seems to be again at

Re: Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread Carlos Perello Marin
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 17:50 +0200, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:30 +0200, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: Carlos Perello Marin wrote: Which string shall I pass to yaboot to have a shell... an then... mount /dev/hda3 and erase root's password from /etc/shadow?

Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 19:26, JGuillaume 'IoGuiX' de Rorthais wrote: Hello, Giovanni Ridolfi a écrit : It doesn't work :-( I have yaboot 1.3.13, and this is my screen output boot: init=/bin/sh Please wait, loading kernel... /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3,

Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 02:13, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: The passwd changing part is a bit tricky: I had a different keyboard on this 'init-blah' stage, ... better: *If I recall correctly* the keyboard was different in this rescue mode ... different from the one I have when logged in to a