Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-07 Thread Krzysztof Mazurczyk
- Original Message - From: "William Leese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:35 AM Subject: Re: I forgot my root Password > On Friday 04 May 2001 01:31, William Leese wrote: > > > Please I need your help, I know I`m a fuckin silly user

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-04 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:12:21AM +0200, Alberto Cabello S?nchez wrote: : : At LILO prompt, type: linux 1 and press enter. This will cause linux to start at runlevel 1 (single-user) so you can run passwd. After that, don't forget your passwd again. Debian asks for a root password before enteri

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-04 Thread Sánchez
At LILO prompt, type: linux 1 and press enter. This will cause linux to start at runlevel 1 (single-user) so you can run passwd. After that, don't forget your passwd again. Saludos al Plata -- - Alberto Cabello Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Servicio de Informática Un

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:12:24PM -0300, Dario R. Paiva wrote: > Please I need your help, I know I`m a fuckin silly user, but I forgot my root > password, please I need your help, how can I recover it? > I`ve been looking in the howtoos but I cant didn`t find anything. http://www.aokiconsult

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread Eric Richardson
MaD dUCK wrote: > > also sprach William Leese (on Fri, 04 May 2001 01:31:15AM +0200): > > get a bootdisk, boot the comp with it, mount your root partition or the > > partition containing /etc, open /etc/shadow (or passwd depending on your > > configuration) and you'll find a line like: > Hit shi

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach William Leese (on Fri, 04 May 2001 01:31:15AM +0200): > get a bootdisk, boot the comp with it, mount your root partition or the > partition containing /etc, open /etc/shadow (or passwd depending on your > configuration) and you'll find a line like: or just give the command linux i

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread William Leese
On Friday 04 May 2001 01:31, William Leese wrote: > > Please I need your help, I know I`m a fuckin silly user, but I forgot > > my root password, please I need your help, how can I recover it? > > get a bootdisk sorry, a rescue disk. a popular one: http://www.toms.net/rb/download.html

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread William Leese
> Please I need your help, I know I`m a fuckin silly user, but I forgot my > root password, please I need your help, how can I recover it? get a bootdisk, boot the comp with it, mount your root partition or the partition containing /etc, open /etc/shadow (or passwd depending on your configurat

RE: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread Brett
From what I hear, if you're physically sitting at the server itself, you can use something called "single user mode" to get yourself out of this mess. This is all I know though so do some searching on the web with "single user mode" as your search criteria. Good luck.   Brett. -Origin