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From: Marco Silva <marcs@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Password help.
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 16:13:12
Message-Id: 1023225169.5138.3.camel@marclinux.ebiznetcorporation.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Password help. by Kim Nielsen
1 You don't need remove the HD, just use gentoo CD-ROM to mount the
2 partition and chroot to it.
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4 mamsbrl
5 Marco Silva
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9 On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 15:59, Kim Nielsen wrote:
10 > On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 21:38, Dan Naumov wrote:
11 > > Elaborate "your linux program".
12 >
13 > He probably mean Linux itself and the password that no one has is
14 > probably the root password.
15 >
16 > There are several ways of you to retrieve it ..
17 >
18 > 1. Did he put on a password in the boot loader?
19 > 2. Do you have access to the machine (An account of some sort)
20 > 3. Take the disc out and mount it on another linux machine .. chroot the
21 > disk and run passwd .. to set roots password
22 >
23 > /Kim
24 > --
25 > I'm the face that stares at you from the shadows.
26 > http://www.insecurity.dk
27 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Password help. Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@××××××.nl>