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



On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:19:34 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:

>* dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> spake thus:
>> 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 ...
>
>I know that this is a solution but I don't have a keyboard. I have a
>screen I could use, but I really don't want to buy a new keyboard just
>to do this... (my friends all have ps/2 keyboards, whilst my machine
>uses the old din-style).

Even if you HAD a keyboard that fits you would SURELY kill your machine by hot-
plugging it in (smash the keyboard-controller's fuse, if it has one, or even 
blow the controller itself.)


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