High, On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, 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). > But it is surely preferable that you have a keyboard attached. When situations like this happens, you need to safely reboot the computer, NOT just hit reset. Greetz, Sebastiaan
