RE: Root Password recovery

2004-02-11 Thread Ben Yau
I use a really helpful utility called "chtpw". It's actually a mini mandrake kernel on a floppy or cd. It was originally built as a utility to reset windows admin passwords (which is also the original reason I downloaded it). However, you can use it also to boot into single user mode. It has a

Re: Root Password recovery

2004-02-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/02/04 21:45), Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 14:19, Quartenoud Francois wrote: > > Hi, I have change the root password on a Debian 3.0. I make a mistake > > during > > the typing, I cannot retrieve the password. > > I try to reboot with typing "linux single" on Lilo, but

Re: Root Password recovery

2004-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi, On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 14:19, Quartenoud Francois wrote: > Hi, I have change the root password on a Debian 3.0. I make a mistake > during > the typing, I cannot retrieve the password. > I try to reboot with typing "linux single" on Lilo, but the system > ask the > root password. > I try to

Re: Root Password recovery

2004-02-03 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:00:05PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Quartenoud Francois (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Hi, I have change the root password on a Debian 3.0. I make a mistake > > during the typing, I cannot retrieve the password. I try to reboot > > with typing "linux

Re: Root Password recovery

2004-02-03 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Quartenoud Francois (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hi, I have change the root password on a Debian 3.0. I make a mistake > during the typing, I cannot retrieve the password. I try to reboot > with typing "linux single" on Lilo, but the system ask the root > password. I try to type "linux

Re: Root Password recovery

2004-02-03 Thread Kent West
Quartenoud Francois wrote: Hi, I have change the root password on a Debian 3.0. I make a mistake during the typing, I cannot retrieve the password. I try to reboot with typing "linux single" on Lilo, but the system ask the root password. I try to type "linux init=/bin/sh" on lilo without su

Re: Root Password recovery

2004-02-03 Thread Michele Casaburo
Quartenoud Francois wrote: Hi, I have change the root password on a Debian 3.0. I make a mistake during the typing, I cannot retrieve the password. I try to reboot with typing "linux single" on Lilo, but the system ask the root password. I try to type "linux init=/bin/sh" on lilo without suc

Root Password recovery

2004-02-03 Thread Quartenoud Francois
Title: Root Password recovery  Hi, I have change the root password on a Debian 3.0. I make a mistake during  the typing, I cannot retrieve the password.  I try to reboot with typing "linux single" on Lilo, but the system ask the  root password.  I try to type "linux init=/

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-14 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I just had to do this to my laptop and it works well. This is a direct quote of the mail I saved off this same list: reboot the machine. When lilo comes up, tap shift. your prompt should change to LILO boot: type linux init=/bin/sh mount -o remount -o rw /dev/hda1 /(assuming

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:17:06AM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > Did you try Linux 1 at lilo prompt? That worked for me. ;-) only `Linux init=/bin/sh' will work on debian, as debian configures init to spawn sulogin when entering single user mode, or if any severe failure occurs in the boot process.

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-14 Thread V.Suresh
Did you try Linux 1 at lilo prompt? That worked for me. ;-) Once upon a time, Shirmay Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >Hi, We use Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1. The root password is lost(yes we are kicking >ourselves). I've tried to boot into the single user mode by typing linux >s

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:55:59PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:36:57PM +1200, Shirmay Li wrote: > > Hi, We use Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1. The root password is lost(yes we are > > kicking ourselves). I've tried to boot into the single user mode by typing > > linux singl

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:36:57PM +1200, Shirmay Li wrote: > Hi, We use Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1. The root password is lost(yes we are > kicking ourselves). I've tried to boot into the single user mode by typing > linux single at the lilo boot: to recover the password. But the method does > not work.

Password Recovery

2001-05-13 Thread Shirmay Li
Hi, We use Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1. The root password is lost(yes we are kicking ourselves). I've tried to boot into the single user mode by typing linux single at the lilo boot: to recover the password. But the method does not work. Could you tell the proper way please? Thanks in advance.