On Tuesday 21 August 2001 20:36, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:19:34 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > >* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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). > > Even if you HAD a keyboard that fits you would SURELY kill your machine by > hot- plugging it in (smash the keyboard-controller's fuse, if it has one, > or even blow the controller itself.)
This is dis-information ! No such thing would happen ! I have done this a squillion times... Cliff
