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On Sat, 9 Dec 2000 05:03, you wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a desperate call for ideas. I have a
> colleague that had to let someone in his lab go
> under not so good conditions. This person was the
> programmer/administrator of the lab's Linux box
> (Red Hat) that has ALL of the lab's research data
> on it and all of the proprietary software they
> use. When he left, the boss asked for the root
> password and it did not work. Fearing remote
> administration, they have disconnected the
> ethernet cable.
>
> THE BIG QUESTION: Is there a way to re-install
> linux over the top of itself and reset the Root
> account without losing the data?
>
> What would you suggest?
>
Reboot the box....if a lilo promt shows up press <TAB> to see your options
(in case the guy has changed the boot label for linux....usually LILO
installs linux with a label of linux).
Assuming he has left the label as linux, at the boot prompt, type "linux
single" or "linux 1" that will boot the system to runlevel 1 (single user)
and dosn't ask for a password
As has been mentioned by others, I'd be very inclined to do a fair bit of
package verification once I was there :)
Andrew
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