From: Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:53:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <558b73fb0508251153716c29ff@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050825184348.GC15449@princeton.edu>
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On 8/25/05, Willie Wong <wwong@princeton.edu> wrote:
>
>
> 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...
>
>
Indeed and most often the most obvious solution is the one that you have
overlooked.
-Mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-25 19:07 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
2005-08-28 13:31 ` Norbert Kamenicky
2005-08-29 5:43 ` A. Khattri
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