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Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Liviu Andronic: |
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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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> > > |
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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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> > |
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> > If you could passwords were useless. ;-) |
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> > |
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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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That's only true if you didn't do anything else to protect the system. All |
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the above is useless if the / filesystem is encrypted. |
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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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Because it protects your system from abuse. |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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