[gentoo-dev] Password help.

[gentoo-dev] Password help.

[greggfreeman]

Hello 

My name is Gregg Freeman,  I have just been hired by a company to 
administrate the network.  The pronlem I have is on the computer of the 
previous administrator he installed your linux program and did not give 
anyone the user and password when he left.  I need to get into this system 
can you help me. 

Thanks
Gregg Freeman
Network Coordinator 

Re: [gentoo-dev] Password help.

[Dan Naumov]

Elaborate "your linux program".

Sincerely,
Dan Naumov

Re: [gentoo-dev] Password help.

[Kim Nielsen]

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
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Password help.

[marco mascherpa (aka mush)]

il giorno Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:31:12PM +0000, greggfreeman ha scritto:
> Hello 
> 
> My name is Gregg Freeman,  I have just been hired by a company to 
> administrate the network.  The pronlem I have is on the computer of the 
> previous administrator he installed your linux program and did not give 
> anyone the user and password when he left.  I need to get into this system 
> can you help me. 

just make a linux/bsd/*nix boot disk, boot and change the root password to what 
you like... hope your friend wasn't so paranoid to set up a crypted partition or 
something weird..
linux is not any kind of program anyway, it's an operating system kernel; yes, i 
know they're just words, but words matter.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Password help.

[Marco Silva]

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
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> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Password help.

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Tuesday 04 June 2002 23:12, Marco Silva wrote:
> You don't need remove the HD, just use gentoo CD-ROM to mount the
> partition and chroot to it.
>
If CD booting is allowed, or the bios doesn't need a password to enable it. 
(Of course resetting the bios password isn't that hard either)

Paul

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