Re: Recover root password

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya patrick

good memory..

and the rest of the various ways... to get our passwd if we dont have
a fd or cd or broken lilo or ??? ..
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/Boot.SingleUser.ForgotRootPasswd.txt

c ya
alvin



On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Patrick Wiseman wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Antonio Mu?oz-Flores wrote:
> 
> > Is there something I can do to recover the root password or for logging
> > as the root user without having to reinstall Debian?
> 
> If you didn't create a bootdisk when you installed, download tomsrtbt from
> 
> http://www.toms.net/rb/
> 
> and create a bootdisk.  (It's a useful thing to have around anyway.)
> 
> Then boot the tomsrtbt system, mount your linux partition, edit
> /etc/shadow and remove the encrypted root password.  Then reboot your
> system, login as root (which now won't require a password), and use
> 'passwd' to reset root's password.
> 
> This is all from memory and untested!!
> 


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