-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> I haven't tried this myself... but, I seem to recall that if you pass > linux "single" on the boot line (at the lilo prompt, etc..) it will > boot into a single-user mode; within that you should be able to > "passwd root". This won't sork on a Debian system. It still asks for the root password. Good Debian (: > If you have shadowpasswords installed, getting a crack to work will be > very difficult -- you need root access to get at that file, and the > setuid root programs are generally not so poorly programmed that they > will give away /etc/shadow so easily. You could use the Debian install disk to boot the system, getting a root prompt (use alt-F2 to change VCs). Then mount the /etc partition, edit the shadow file, and change/delete the root password there. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN+scmb7M/9WKZLW5AQHViAP/Qe7neba/7zhHn3sF4E6oh6EGLMgHQsZG tJwPO3jxtRclqhwQp8d4e8Kr1RGP4db2tcmgZO5JMbs5uam8T+uCC6O7GJIeyJra LYrcqaujv27ya64by/0cu197tUAvLcdB9jAxrPUzu6s0MfnGNSCOOE7ZBmp2hwa3 nzmkPVlilFk= =z6fw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
