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From: Marco Silva <marcs@ebiznet.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Password help.
Date: 04 Jun 2002 17:12:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1023225169.5138.3.camel@marclinux.ebiznetcorporation.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1023220750.4936.3.camel@thoth.insecurity.dk>

You don't need remove the HD, just use gentoo CD-ROM to mount the
partition and chroot to it.

mamsbrl
Marco Silva



On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 15:59, Kim Nielsen wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 21:38, Dan Naumov wrote:
> > Elaborate "your linux program".
> 
> He probably mean Linux itself and the password that no one has is
> probably the root password.
> 
> There are several ways of you to retrieve it .. 
> 
> 1. Did he put on a password in the boot loader?
> 2. Do you have access to the machine (An account of some sort)
> 3. Take the disc out and mount it on another linux machine .. chroot the
> disk and run passwd .. to set roots password
> 
> /Kim
> -- 
> I'm the face that stares at you from the shadows.
>                         http://www.insecurity.dk
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-04 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-04 19:31 [gentoo-dev] Password help greggfreeman
2002-06-04 19:38 ` Dan Naumov
2002-06-04 19:59   ` Kim Nielsen
2002-06-04 21:12     ` Marco Silva [this message]
2002-06-06  9:03       ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-06-04 20:05 ` marco mascherpa (aka mush)

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