I haven't tried this myself... but, I seem to recall that if you pass linux "single" on the boot line (at the lilo prompt, etc..) it will boot into a single-user mode; within that you should be able to "passwd root".
If you have shadowpasswords installed, getting a crack to work will be very difficult -- you need root access to get at that file, and the setuid root programs are generally not so poorly programmed that they will give away /etc/shadow so easily. hth On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 01:36:19PM +0800, Lyle Hart wrote: > Does anyone know what to do if you don't know the root password. Is there > any third party software that can crack it, or do I have to reinstall Debian > 2.1 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
