From: "Liviu Andronic" <landronimirc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:03:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68b1e2610803250103o36ee7fe5n1aab9f6399e56a0f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803250741.46180.uwix@iway.na>
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
> > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root
> > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log
> > in there fine. Can I recover the root password?
>
> If you could passwords were useless. ;-)
>
> 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
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-24 20:30 [gentoo-user] Recovering root password Grant
2008-03-24 20:34 ` Boris Fersing
2008-03-24 20:39 ` Dale
2008-03-24 20:49 ` Florian Philipp
2008-03-24 20:40 ` Ricardo Saffi Marques
2008-03-24 20:45 ` Steven Lembark
2008-03-24 20:49 ` Ricardo Saffi Marques
2008-03-25 7:12 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-24 21:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-24 23:52 ` Steven Lembark
2008-03-25 0:14 ` Grant
2008-03-24 20:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 5:41 ` Uwe Thiem
2008-03-25 8:03 ` Liviu Andronic [this message]
2008-03-25 8:09 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-25 8:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 8:32 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-25 15:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 16:32 ` Grant
2008-03-25 17:04 ` Uwe Thiem
2008-03-25 17:26 ` Grant
2008-03-25 21:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-03-26 8:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-26 10:04 ` Uwe Thiem
2008-03-25 17:14 ` Florian Philipp
2008-03-25 17:55 ` Steven Lembark
2008-03-25 19:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 9:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-25 12:08 ` Liviu Andronic
2008-03-25 14:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-25 17:53 ` Steven Lembark
2008-03-25 18:02 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-25 20:06 ` Wael Nasreddine
2008-03-26 7:59 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-25 19:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-25 8:30 ` Wael Nasreddine
2008-03-25 17:23 ` Mick
2008-03-25 20:02 ` Wael Nasreddine
2008-03-25 17:51 ` Steven Lembark
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