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 1JdtN3-00055S-2s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:34:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69196E0523; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com (hs-out-0708.google.com [64.233.178.243]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016D5E0523 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k27so2587939hsc.2 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:34:14 -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:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=hBG4W7gPVwU+KcDYZpfyWDUhI3pzug6w9Xf6LKZduS4=; b=OacaIig9nHqzJPwLgHQCg8zCbO77lg5F6BzXmTAhlTGOjjdhqWEgvqcqABmnM1HK6abef+5lwUJWXloASDjfz7axsKzUbluzdsAw02Rl9jGoWfDfgA/Ktirx8ggEELJ+aK8iOa9c2Azp7kl/ViaBWoen9+j5xnMIpBWUHr3rKgQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=tgTuDjOERA1um0kRFxdMmqYtJK3IctG0LDmpITvW+Qj+IVYYr1nizK8zFx9F03nbU7H5hxNYqy9wRKjkaZeKbW5bNadXIVIW5XM2hoRTLroZ7/bKN9QpSfKPuCkNp5PDRJH9tQ6Vq+wq9OI9clfAkDYxYptxm9EJhIZ3iHmxHMQ= Received: by 10.100.216.12 with SMTP id o12mr19378899ang.21.1206390847489; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.8.11 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <97c95c3d0803241334v59d6a149u3720071754349efb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:34:07 -0400 From: "Boris Fersing" Sender: kernel.sensei@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10803241330r3b447b4bkde7a062c73905b94@mail.gmail.com> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10803241330r3b447b4bkde7a062c73905b94@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: aa3ef61276c3a472 X-Archives-Salt: 84a7d86c-ff29-424f-be15-dc09e437fa45 X-Archives-Hash: 93bedd4a6e0877dd495a9050a6fffc38 On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Grant 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? > > - Grant Hi, boot with a liveCD, mount the gentoo partition, chroot into it and type 'passwd' regards, Boris. > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- $ ruby -e'puts " .:@BFegiklnorst".unpack("x4ax7aaX6ax5aX15ax4aax6aaX7ax2 \ aX5aX8axaX3ax8aX4ax6aX3aX6ax3ax3aX9ax4ax2aX9axaX6ax3aX2ax4 \ ax3aX4aXaX12ax10aaX7a").join' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list