On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:22:05PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 08:14:46PM -0300, Dayse Regina Pereira <dayseregina@uol.com.br> was heard to say:
> > I'm just start with debian and i have a problem wich i don't know who i should contact so i decided to try you. I forget my password and i can't enter in my machine as root or as any user, how can i change the password of any user or of a root to restart to use my Linux partition?
>
> This is an alternative to the two suggestions already given to you.
>
> At the LILO prompt, type shift and then enter:
> <linux> init=/bin/sh
>
> where <linux> is whatever you called the linux partition in /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> This will give you an extremely minimal rootshell. You'll have to remount
> the root partition read-write:
>
> mount -o remount,rw,errors=remount-ro /
>
> Then change root's password:
> passwd
>
> I think that should do it. Running "exec init 2" should bootstrap the system
> the rest of the way (ummmm...possibly with some warnings about a read-write
> root partition, try "mount -o remount,ro /" first to avoid it)
befor you make a "mount -o remount,ro /", you must type "sync"!
and if you don't have passwd (without /usr), use "ae /etc/passwd" and
del the crypted password in this file. Now have root no password...
:-)
> I suggest that you then add "restricted" and "password=####### (a secret)" to
> /etc/lilo.conf and chmod it to 0600 to keep other people from doing the same
> thing. :-) [1]
>
> Daniel
>
> [1] although some people will argue (perhaps correctly) that this isn't that
> useful a security measure, since bootdisks will work around it, the bios can
> be reset, the hard drive can be removed from the box and mounted on another
> system, etc, etc, etc..
>
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