Re: Admin password reset

Fri, 19 May 2006 12:34:43 -0700

'Twas before my time, I'm happy to say! Everything has a "back door" now. 

On 19-May-06, at 3:32 PM, Collin O'Neill wrote:
I guess it's events such as these that shock companies into implementing fail-safe procedures. 

John Golitsis wrote:
Oh, this is already way into the legal stage! The individual in question actually claims that they do not remember the password! I guess it's all a matter of how far we want to take it.
From what I understand, simply retrieving the files is insufficient in this case. Apparently, there's an application that controls a piece of our equipment and nobody has a clue what the application is called or who makes it! The entire Linux installation on this machine is solely for this one purpose. 


On 19-May-06, at 1:32 PM, CAN - McGuire, Dan wrote:


You are all missing the point

Someone needs a good smack upside the head!
Tell the person who is having a hissy fit that you will be sending the machine out for service by some godless company that will charge megabucks for the service and that your lawyers will make sure that the bill goes to them. 

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Hi John:

Here's the easy way:
Get the install first CD of the YDL install set. Enter that into the laptop in question, and also have an ethernet cable connected between the laptop and any device you wish to copy files to. Boot the laptop 
so that it boots from the CD, press the C key.  When you reach the
Linux boot prompt:

boot:
type in, install rescue. Follow instructions from there; you'll have 
all the access you please and won't need any password.

boot: install rescue
Copy what you wish and so on. I know this works as I tried this out 
on my own laptop.

Best of luck.... Derick.

On May 19, 2006, at 9:31 AM, John Golitsis wrote:


Sorry folks, I'm sure this question has been asked and answered a
million times, so if someone can simply point me in the right
direction, it would be much appreciated.
We have a Mac notebook computer that a previous employee used to use 
and he's refusing to give us the admin password to Yellow Dog.  Is
there a way to reset this? There is info we need on this machine, so 
we can't simply reformat and re-install.

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