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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na> wrote: |
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> > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root |
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> > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log |
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> > in there fine. Can I recover the root password? |
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> If you could passwords were useless. ;-) |
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> But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then |
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> give root another password. |
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But then, conventional passwords are as useless. One needs no more |
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than physical access to the computer, a LiveCD and a couple minutes in |
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order to become the super user of your system. Basically, the password |
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seems useful only to know whether anyone has changed it behind your |
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back. |
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I am starting to wonder why am I so attached to my root password being |
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strong.. :) |
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Liviu |
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