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 1E8Mt1-0003N8-TY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:55:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7PIpVTW015950; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:51:31 GMT Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice01.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.75]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7PIgG9D013056 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:42:16 GMT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j7PIhVbD010364 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:43:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j7PIhUt1025869 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:43:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A7A5B3B094; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:43:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:43:48 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system Message-ID: <20050825184348.GC15449@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <49bf44f10508250847393673ee@mail.gmail.com> <20050825162144.GA11609@princeton.edu> <558b73fb05082509387d3ccaf@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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <558b73fb05082509387d3ccaf@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 89713e6d-0439-4587-ac43-5ca276fb6353 X-Archives-Hash: a97c673ee28033a3a97e45c488f670b0 On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:38:42PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > All you really need is an account with sudo rights then `sudo passwd root` > and your all set, else your suck with singleuser. > If the OP has sudo set up, would he really be sending a mail to the list? And if he didn't, setting up sudo would be a catch 22 now, wouldn't it? Though, granted, the OP did only say he lost root passwd, and not superuser access... W -- Your mom is a monolithic kernel! Sortir en Pantoufles: up 13 days, 21:43 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list