[Tfug] Cracking a root password?

[Jim March]

In Ubuntu you can start in "recovery mode" and use passwd.  It would
help if we knew your distro.

Jim

On 9/10/07, Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net> wrote:
> On 09/10/2007 04:51 PM, Christopher Robbins wrote:
> > I don't have the old admin around, so I gotta start plugging
> > away at this one on my own.
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> Do you have physical access?
>
> If so then:
>
> - boot with a livecd
> - mkdir /tmp
> - mount /dev/hda1 /tmp
> - chroot /tmp
> - passwd
> - type your new password
> (untested)
>
> --
> Glen
>
>
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