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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> 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 in |
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> there fine. Can I recover the root password? |
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> - Grant |
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Hi, |
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boot with a liveCD, mount the gentoo partition, chroot into it and type 'passwd' |
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regards, |
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Boris. |
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$ ruby -e'puts " .:@BFegiklnorst".unpack("x4ax7aaX6ax5aX15ax4aax6aaX7ax2 \ |
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aX5aX8axaX3ax8aX4ax6aX3aX6ax3ax3aX9ax4ax2aX9axaX6ax3aX2ax4 \ |
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ax3aX4aXaX12ax10aaX7a").join' |
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