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 1E8PNN-00003N-5O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:35:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7PLWwI8001261; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:32:58 GMT Received: from smtp107.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp107.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.98]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7PLTHBL026461 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:29:18 GMT Received: (qmail 32172 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2005 21:30:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (menola@sbcglobal.net@68.79.14.50 with plain) by smtp107.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Aug 2005 21:30:34 -0000 From: Joe Menola 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <49bf44f10508250847393673ee@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10508250847393673ee@mail.gmail.com> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508251630.30756.menola@sbcglobal.net> X-Archives-Salt: 6c56c65e-a2d3-484f-9cd0-2fe24b3c88a6 X-Archives-Hash: 9a1f722fc454203731d7076dcbb5245f 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list