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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:55:40
Message-Id: 20050825184348.GC15449@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system by Michael Crute
1 On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:38:42PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
2 > All you really need is an account with sudo rights then `sudo passwd root`
3 > and your all set, else your suck with singleuser.
4 >
5
6 If the OP has sudo set up, would he really be sending a mail to the
7 list? And if he didn't, setting up sudo would be a catch 22 now,
8 wouldn't it?
9
10 Though, granted, the OP did only say he lost root passwd, and not
11 superuser access...
12
13 W
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15 Your mom is a monolithic kernel!
16 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 13 days, 21:43
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Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system Michael Crute <mcrute@×××××.com>