From: Joe Menola <menola@sbcglobal.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:30:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508251630.30756.menola@sbcglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10508250847393673ee@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday August 25 2005 10:47 am, Grant wrote:
> I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any
> way to retrieve or reset it?
>
If you can get access to the root partition (ie:mount from a livecd) and have
a working /etc/passwd with a known password for root, move the original
passwd file (or merge other users into the known file keeping the root entry
of course)... this might grant you access.
-jm
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-25 15:47 [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system Grant
2005-08-25 15:55 ` John Jolet
2005-08-25 15:55 ` Greg Shikhman
2005-08-25 16:31 ` Grant
2005-08-25 16:42 ` Michael Crute
2005-08-25 16:04 ` John Dangler
2005-08-25 20:56 ` Grant
2005-08-25 21:08 ` John Dangler
2005-08-25 21:52 ` Grant
2005-08-25 22:18 ` John Dangler
2005-08-25 23:36 ` Grant
2005-08-26 10:25 ` Uwe Thiem
2005-08-25 16:09 ` Dave Nebinger
2005-08-25 16:36 ` Ric Messier
2005-08-25 17:03 ` Dave Nebinger
2005-08-25 16:21 ` Willie Wong
2005-08-25 16:38 ` Michael Crute
2005-08-25 18:43 ` Willie Wong
2005-08-25 18:53 ` Michael Crute
2005-08-25 19:22 ` Greg Shikhman
2005-08-25 19:57 ` Dave Nebinger
2005-08-25 19:59 ` John Dangler
2005-08-25 20:16 ` José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
2005-08-26 0:45 ` Ian Hastie
2005-08-26 3:46 ` Michael Crute
2005-08-26 5:50 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2005-08-26 6:50 ` Frank Schafer
2005-08-26 8:46 ` Fernando Meira
2005-08-26 9:12 ` Frank Schafer
2005-08-26 9:45 ` Fernando Meira
2005-08-26 14:07 ` Frank Schafer
2005-08-26 21:57 ` Fernando Meira
2005-08-26 22:06 ` Michael Crute
2005-08-27 0:24 ` Greg Shikhman
2005-08-27 1:17 ` William Kenworthy
2005-08-28 19:42 ` Norbert Kamenicky
2005-08-25 21:30 ` Joe Menola [this message]
2005-08-28 13:31 ` Norbert Kamenicky
2005-08-29 5:43 ` A. Khattri
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