Re: Access and Back-up a Root locked laptop

On 17 Jun 2024 13:33 -0600, from avelinoheribe...@gmail.com (HERIBERTO AVELINO): > My root account is locked. I experienced the well known issue "Debian > authentication failure" at the log-in stage, i.e. it would not accept the > root password. I haven't heard of any specific issue like that, but

Re: Access and Back-up a Root locked laptop

Hi, On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 01:33:12PM -0600, HERIBERTO AVELINO wrote: > My root account is locked. I experienced the well known issue "Debian > authentication failure" at the log-in stage, i.e. it would not accept the > root password. With physical access to the machine and without an encrypted

Re: Access and Back-up a Root locked laptop

On 6/17/24 15:33, HERIBERTO AVELINO wrote: Dear all My root account is locked. I experienced the well known issue "Debian authentication failure" at the log-in stage, i.e. it would not accept the root password. I accessed the BIOS to enter the safe mode, and discovered that my hard drive is almos