[Tfug] Cracking a root password?

[Christopher Robbins]

On 9/10/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In Ubuntu you can start in "recovery mode" and use passwd.  It would
> help if we knew your distro.
>
> Jim


It's an older Debian machine...I've been wanting to move it to a more recent
Debian (or SUSE) server.  Just need to get some data first.

Thanks for the ideas...I'll have to give them a go tomorrow.

   - Chris

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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Chris Robbins
Systems Programmer
Department of English - University of Arizona
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