Re: "forgot password" workarounds not working

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Haines Brown wrote:
> I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but
> I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two
> methods: 
>
> 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do:
>
>    $ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd
>
>    in order to then run the chroot and the passwd commands, but when I
>    tried to mount the disk I got the error "only root can do that". Is
>    the only way out of this to know root's password?

No, with KNOPPIX, you use a root terminal, or sudo.

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