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I tell you the right way todo it. Make it easy as possible, not so |
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difficult like the others in the thread! |
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Download system rescuecd (which is a nice gentoo system with lots of |
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beautiful tools running out of the box): |
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http://www.sysresccd.org/Download |
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download, burn and boot from the cd. This is a gentoo live cd, with |
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maintenance tools! |
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After you started from the cd, create a directotry, let us say: /mnt/gentooX |
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and mount your partition inside, where the entire tree lives in it. |
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if /dev/sda5 or whatever has the entire tree: |
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mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/gentooX |
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optionally mount the other partitions from your harddisk, if "opt" is in |
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your harddisk an own partition, otherwise look in your harddisk, in this |
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case: |
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/mnt/gentooX/etc/fstab |
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which shows you the partition table! |
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chroot the new environment: |
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mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc |
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if you need networking, otherwise leave this step away. |
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cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf |
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chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash |
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env-update |
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source /etc/profile |
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after you did this, your are on your harddisks environment as root, and |
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you easily can issue this command: |
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passwd root |
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Tamer |
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Am 10.01.2012 19:46, schrieb Tanstaafl: |
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> Ok, I did something really dumb... |
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> I changed the root passwd for a system I manage last week, but neglected |
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> to write it down, and now what I *thought* I had changed it to isn't |
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> working... I know, I know, really *really* dumb, but that's where I am... |
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> I know I can boot into Single User mode, remount the root partition |
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> read/write, and edit /etc/shadow (removing the encrypted passwd), then |
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> rest it using passwd, but... |
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> Some of the accounts in /etc/shadow have a '*' where the encrypted |
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> passwd would be, and some have a '!'... (ie, one is sshd:!:... and |
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> another is halt:*:...) |
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> Does it matter what I change it to? Should I use a *, !, or nothing at |
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> all (so that there is *nothing* between the two :: that would normally |
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> contain the encrypted passwd)? |
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> Thanks... |
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