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

Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread The David
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. Sincerely, David Have a good day!

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

lost password

2004-06-29 Thread disciple
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 change anything... how do i reset? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s