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 1Je484-0008Da-7e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:03:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F417E06C3; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from po-out-1718.google.com (po-out-1718.google.com [72.14.252.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E184E06C3 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by po-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id b23so4797111poe.1 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:03:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=RkWpwhl3UOambeQVFBk+WSC9JRM+t82xwIJZyr2al7I=; b=bPRBOBxdPvfCl5KsyG5hTxWDHoFZCM2KwfWccPLqPMMb+0bzjMQH910h3xD0NKJGpIVx/SszmkvL0Sy4/r1UAaY3rJ+i+tMzKuTuEs4EAAIQJrf7Q4shtRJeUyflHWhD1NXBnt5Atmlr96iYUwYyHiUDEw8vDRDt0vK6p71Baas= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gxHgM2kkwhlPO0w2CKC0im8HYRCErbShn2NL2b+AjIa4y6hN69aWw5oB6CRCHTs8emzt2UJ6A6bpM/TvIaGaYSuMXpOpvG8e3XX1c8PJg157dQlkMAKzUhyLaLAyOHvB7Uw4ju2j3HVrPZWM05D/CGV2p98wn6w+eLfPZcJIWeI= Received: by 10.141.161.6 with SMTP id n6mr3003735rvo.41.1206432209682; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:03:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.141.10 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:03:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <68b1e2610803250103o36ee7fe5n1aab9f6399e56a0f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:03:29 +0100 From: "Liviu Andronic" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password In-Reply-To: <200803250741.46180.uwix@iway.na> 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: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10803241330r3b447b4bkde7a062c73905b94@mail.gmail.com> <200803250741.46180.uwix@iway.na> X-Archives-Salt: 7673429d-fa96-4f6d-bfac-58ffbef173e1 X-Archives-Hash: 342de95ec8be6ea2c5f41a3cd0ef4a39 On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Uwe Thiem 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list