Re: Lost root password...
is your user in the sudoers file?
could you sudo su give the user password
reset the root from there ?
Don
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>> It's been awhile since I looked at the rescue floppy for potato
on sparc,
>> but my guess is that the ufs driver on that floppy doesn't
include write
>> support, which is an experimental option iirc. Do you have Sun
>> installation media? you could boot that to change the pass, but
you would
>
>No, unfortunately I have no Sun instalation disks or CD's and I
don't have a
>CD-rom drive. I have a network card build in but I need the
adapter to
>ethernet (from the 25 pin port). How would I export my hard drive
from the
>bios so I can mount it from Debian? My main workstation is a
Intel Debian.
>
>> have probably done that already if that were the case. =) If
you have
>> access to another Debian box, you could use it to generate a
custom .iso
>> image, or you could mount the hard-drive on another box /w ufs
rw support.
>
>I'm willing to try both, I'm unfamiliar with creating custom
iso's though.
>By the second option you mean physicly remove the HDD and put it
in another
>box (that already has a bootable system)? Or can I just mount it
ower the
>network somehow?
>
>Thanks,
>Marko
>
>>
>> Brian
>> fade@etc.etc.etc.
>>
>> How often I found where I should be going only by setting out
for
>> somewhere else..
>> -- R. Buckminster Fuller
>>
>>
>
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