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On Friday 30 September 2005 02:02 pm, J.A. wrote: |
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> I have a separate gateway/firewall (in.thesame.net) but I forgot the |
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> user name and password. It was setup with openna.com security procedures |
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> about four years ago. |
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openna.com mentions nothing (I didn't see it) about securing your BIOS or boot |
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loader. This means that you can download knoppix and boot it (assuming you |
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have a bootable cdrom, you may need to change bios settings). |
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Once knoppix is up and running, find the device that contains your firewall's |
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filesystem. If the filesystem is on multiple partitions, then mount them as |
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they would be on the live system. Assuming /dev/hda3 is your primary |
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partition, perform the following: |
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# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 |
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# chroot /mnt/hda3 |
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# passwd |
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... type your new password, twice to verify |
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If it complains, you may need to have proc mounted. If so, you can do this: |
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mount -t proc none /mnt/hda3/proc |
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These are a little bit generalized, but I hope it helps. |
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Robert Larson |
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