From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JeEdo-00041k-PM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:17:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10253E07FC; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD88E07FC for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so2419232ugf.49 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:16:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=ALHHGlIVr4PzjHcK5cnKLanmOKx81YkRextV555b9x4=; b=XAmR1wBgY2+PcSBl5y5X9eaKoILn/E7NztcvhaVU/BrAGmxUZivJ2AxfDtIgEWqtzaysy8hcCDQ9Msd3L5pATZ4jvniEypVM5/T+Ckyr/eLxqcl8en83AdeUkBOV2EuhYsAmg01ngfBXRwxF1Vq2XaN2aAWtGUbI61Eh2NWRJtI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=k93wCGoQXsDT9HEsD+1QzjUyyo21O04jkFjoWyVTgWHuopxJMST2oXMTZ/QKO7YzKfGPq7gdmGrLrW4huBHu1YKW8m96wDd4CMhn4+vT8UBo1PPPORt4/VpdRiR/+3D235WdIIIhFfRUZG7AW1/DrUv/e7x59IGdPmZwI4DAbYU= Received: by 10.78.201.10 with SMTP id y10mr21553053huf.34.1206472612572; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study ( [212.159.46.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y6sm34592646mug.1.2008.03.25.12.16.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:16:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:23:00 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <49bf44f10803241330r3b447b4bkde7a062c73905b94@mail.gmail.com> <68b1e2610803250103o36ee7fe5n1aab9f6399e56a0f@mail.gmail.com> <20080325083038.GA19029@phoenix.nasreddine.info> In-Reply-To: <20080325083038.GA19029@phoenix.nasreddine.info> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1374557.7ErPWc9OGi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200803251723.21456.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2b350a46-3573-483b-aade-f24fce1c3a83 X-Archives-Hash: 31b3adbb6cfa5559dbe035fe054d2558 --nextPart1374557.7ErPWc9OGi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > This One Time, at Band Camp, Liviu Andronic said= ,=20 On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:03:29AM +0100: > > > But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then > > > give root another password. > > > > But then, conventional passwords are as useless. One needs no more > > than physical access to the computer, a LiveCD and a couple minutes in > > order to become the super user of your system. Basically, the password > > seems useful only to know whether anyone has changed it behind your > > back. > > > > I am starting to wonder why am I so attached to my root password being > > strong.. :) > > Liviu > > That's why I have my entire installation over a DM-CRYPT ( LUKS > encrypted partition... ), including swaps and storage ( LVM over > DM-CRYPT actually), this way even if someone had a physical access to > my laptop, both GRUB and LiveCD approach would be useless... I've thought about going for this . . . and then backpedaled once more. Ev= ery=20 time I had a fs problem I have managed to recover to this date without much= =20 trouble. Vanilla primary and extended partitions seem to be straight forwa= rd=20 to access with any LiveCD. To be honest even when I had to frig about with= =20 LVM I managed to recover without loss of data (more out of luck than skill = I=20 suspect). The thought however, that I may lose my private key (never say=20 never), or lose a drive and need to access my data pronto from a back up=20 makes me somewhat nervous. Should I be more brave that this? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1374557.7ErPWc9OGi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBH6TUJ5Fp0QerLYPcRApgiAJ0avu2Y+rQekPaXntnCcRyt4D7BFwCgsmx9 G1DZhAsnbB8G1gQ0t7Mpj0k= =NvYR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1374557.7ErPWc9OGi-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list