Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*
* Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL> spake thus:
> High,
>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, 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).
> >
> But it is surely preferable that you have a keyboard attached. When
> situations like this happens, you need to safely reboot the computer, NOT
> just hit reset.
Of course :) but I had to take it with me on a plane, and didn't want to
lug around on a lot of stuff I didn't need. I set it up before I left so
that it booted up and accepted connections via ssh, and planned to do
shutdowns via the network. I wasn't actuallly *planning* to forget the
password you know :P
Regards, Stig
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