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Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*



On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
| I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I
| used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush*

The easiest way is to borrow a head and keyboard from somewhere and
boot into "single" user mode.  Hmm, now if you had a way to reboot ...
Are you running the old BIND?  You could use it to get root ;-).
Actually, ALT-CTRL-DEL should work to reboot nicely from the console.

-D



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