On 22 Nov 2024 12:40 -0500, from e...@gmx.us: >> We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company. We >> are moving to another state and we forgot the password. Is there >> anyway to recover this without losing data? Thank you. > > Boot off rescue media, mount the victim's / partition somewhere, then edit > <mount_point>/etc/shadow to change the second field (deliminated by colons) > to the null string.
That, of course, assumes that what's being talked about is a user account password. If what you are talking about is instead a LUKS passphrase, then a very different piece of advice applies: DO NOT REBOOT THE SYSTEM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. _Given root_, the volume key can be extracted on a running system where the container is unlocked and either used directly or to create a corresponding LUKS header with a known passphrase; but once the container is locked (either by luksClose, or by rebooting), that possibility is lost and the data becomes inaccessible without a valid container passphrase. So: _exactly_ which "password" are you referring to? -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
