on Wed, Jun 12, 2002, Patrick Wiseman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Antonio Mu?oz-Flores wrote: > > > Is there something I can do to recover the root password or for logging > > as the root user without having to reinstall Debian? > > If you didn't create a bootdisk when you installed, download tomsrtbt from > > http://www.toms.net/rb/ > > and create a bootdisk. (It's a useful thing to have around anyway.)
TRB won't mount recent ext2fs filesystems, nor can it deal with
reiserfs, with its default kernel.
Better:
- Boot system.
- At LILO prompt: linux init=/bin/bash
- Wait for boot process to complete.
- You have a shell. You're root. Either set root's password, or edit
the /etc/shadow file, and delete the second colon (':') delimited
field.
Reboot normally. Set your root password if necessary.
GRUB instructions differ.
Peace.
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