Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password
On 15/03/14 22:29, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:09:33PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 15/03/14 21:45, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>>> If another OS had not been available but I knew the root
>>> password, is there some way I could have gained access as
>>> root?
>
>> # passwd `grep 1000 /etc/passwd | cut -d : -f1`
>
> That doesn't help him until he's logged into the system.
Richard has clearly said "if I knew the root password" "as root"
So he *can* login to the system.
Why he didn't, is the question. ;)
Perhaps he tried from a GUI login which only permitted a userlogin
(but didn't prompt with the username and didn't, or couldn't
(Crtl+backspace etc) didn't work - still wouldn't explain why he
didn't just boot into the rescue console. Perhaps his fu was low?
>
> Cheers, Tom
>
Kind regards
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