Hey Evan, Take a knoppix cd and boot with it. Mount your PC's harddisk and delete the root's password in /etc/shadow. Reboot with the Debian installation and you should be able to "root" without a password...
Cheers! Wim On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:32:23PM -0400, Evan Storer wrote: > Helpful folks, > I just got a computer from work that was used by someone a few years ago > which runs Debian, and I can't do anything with it since I don't know any > usernames or passwords or anything. Is there some kind of override to get > past the login screen so I can set up my own account? Any help would be > great. > It says I'm running "Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 ethel tty1" if that information is > necessary. > Thanks! > -Evan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
