Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 20:36, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> 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.)
This is dis-information !
No such thing would happen !
I have done this a squillion times...
Cliff
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