From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8Li9-0002oe-94 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:40:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7PHawUn021155; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:36:58 GMT Received: from smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net (smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net [209.208.0.105]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7PHSpgG001721 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:28:52 GMT Received: (qmail 1887 invoked by uid 0); 25 Aug 2005 16:04:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO croatus) (209.208.34.71) by smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net with SMTP; 25 Aug 2005 16:04:36 -0000 From: "John Dangler" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:04:22 -0400 Message-ID: <00c901c5a98e$bb7fc410$0501a8c0@croatus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10508250847393673ee@mail.gmail.com> Importance: Normal X-Archives-Salt: 25ac887f-adf2-4a2c-bba6-81d5e4ce5e83 X-Archives-Hash: 33b6452886e83c0eba73a151038d73da Grant~ I had the same thing happen to me on one of our dedi servers. I called the isp and they had a way of recovering the password, although it cost me $75 to get it done. Basically, they told me that it's a sophisticated 'hack' into the machine to get it back. If there's another way, I'd also be very interested in knowing what it is. John D -----Original Message----- From: Grant [mailto:emailgrant@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:47 AM To: Gentoo mailing list Subject: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any way to retrieve or reset it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list