Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/11/2024 01:11, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 22 Nov 2024 12:40 -0500, from e...@gmx.us: Boot off rescue media, mount the victim's / partition somewhere, then edit /etc/shadow to change the second field (deliminated by colons) to the null string.[...] If what you are talking about is instead

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Paoli
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 9:27 AM The David wrote: > 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. Yikes! That kernel goes back to Debian 7 - released 2

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Dan Ritter
e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 11/22/24 11:56, The David wrote: > > 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 vic

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, While people here can and will attempt to talk you through resolving your problem… On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 04:56:23PM +, The David wrote: > We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company This is an ancient kernel version and 32-bit (as denoted by 686-pae) is also inadvisab

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:56:23 + The David wrote: > 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. You can boot the machine with a live system, mount t

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
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

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread tomas
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 04:56:23PM +, The David wrote: > 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. Which password? If it is some user's or root

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread eben
On 11/22/24 11:56, The David wrote: > 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, the

Re: lost password

2004-06-29 Thread Adam Aube
Micha Feigin wrote: >> ?? 29 06 2004 21:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: >> > forgot root password. just installed "woody"... >> > tried alt, shift ctrl keys and was able to get to lilo. it still asked >> > for the root passwd. booted to cd and ran: >> > >> > rescue root=/dev/hda1 still could not

Re: lost password

2004-06-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:05:40PM +0300, Todor Tzankov wrote: > Boot from the CD as normaly, > change to the second console, > > mount the root partition: > #mkdir temp > #mount /dev/hda1 temp > > chroot in that directory: > #chroot temp /bin/bash > > and change root password: > #passwd > > Ho

Re: lost password

2004-06-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Em Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:00:14 +0200, disciple escreveu: > >> forgot root password. just installed "woody"... >> tried alt, shift ctrl keys and was able to get to lilo. > > There you have to boot in single user mode, in

Re: lost password

2004-06-29 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:00:14 +0200, disciple escreveu: > forgot root password. just installed "woody"... > tried alt, shift ctrl keys and was able to get to lilo. There you have to boot in single user mode, init=1 if memory does not fail me. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra

Re: lost password

2004-06-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > forgot root password. just installed "woody"... > tried alt, shift ctrl keys and was able to get to lilo. it still > asked for the root passwd. At the lilo prompt, enter: Linux init=/bin/sh at the commmandline: mount -o remount,rw / pas

Re: lost password

2004-06-29 Thread Todor Tzankov
Boot from the CD as normaly, change to the second console, mount the root partition: #mkdir temp #mount /dev/hda1 temp chroot in that directory: #chroot temp /bin/bash and change root password: #passwd Hope that helps ;) На 29 06 2004 21:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] написа: > forgot root password. ju