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?
2. In grub, I edited the kernel line for the disk I wanted to boot by
appending to that line the words: "single init=/bin/sh". This
brought me to a sh2.5-2b# prompt, but when I tried to issue the
passwd command from there, I only got the "authentication token
lock busy" error. When I have trouble with lock files I usually
just delete them, but don't know where this one is or if I can
delete it.
Any suggestions?
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Haines Brown
KB1GRM
ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex SS-482
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