From: Vox (voxlinuxuanl.org)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 21:47:35 CST

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On September 1993 plus 3857 days Eric Draven wrote:

> all,
>
> after returning from vacation, i found my memory completely vanquished of
> all information. i found out that the guy i left behind forgot the root
> password of one server (heck, i did it my self!) so both of us are hopeless
> at recovering the password, since the server was configured to ask for a
> login name and password even when booting to single-user mode. the boot
> parameter 'init=/bin/sh' does not work as well; it just hangs the pc. the
> only password we have for the machine is for a very limited account; no
> privileges to run programs, whatsoever. any ideas for recovering the
> password?
>
> links or other info regarding the matter is most appreciated.

  Boot with rescue floppy or CD, mount your / partition, edit
  /etc/shadow and copy the encrypted hash from a password that you
  *do* know (it can be from a different linux box, doesn't matter) and
  replace root's password hash with it. You'll be able to use the
  known password to get into root's account.

  Vox

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of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_
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