Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 20:19, 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).
You could always buy a ps/2-->din adapter..!
Cliff
>
> Regards, Stig
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