Re: Root password
I haven't tried this myself... but, I seem to recall that if you pass linux
"single" on the boot line (at the lilo prompt, etc..) it will boot into a
single-user mode; within that you should be able to "passwd root".
If you have shadowpasswords installed, getting a crack to work will be very
difficult -- you need root access to get at that file, and the setuid root
programs are generally not so poorly programmed that they will give away
/etc/shadow so easily.
hth
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 01:36:19PM +0800, Lyle Hart wrote:
> Does anyone know what to do if you don't know the root password. Is there
> any third party software that can crack it, or do I have to reinstall Debian
> 2.1
>
>
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