-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:25:35PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, Bob. > > On 11/07/16 22:02, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > Running a new hard drive in my Thinkpad 420 laptop and trying to install > > jessie. Everything went fine until it failed to configure the net work > > with dns. Strange, since I had a good connection to the modem and was > > getting a signal at the ethernet connection where the cable connected to > > the laptop.
[...] > Something that maybe you could try is to boot using a livecd, make a > chroot to "/" and run "passwd" to set the password for the user that the > system is not taking. Up there "chroot to /" means "chroot to wherever the installation target filesystem gets mounted", I guess. I forget at the moment where that is in a rescue system This seems like the most promising path. I do more or less the same, but usually forgo the chroot step and edit .../etc/passwd (wherever the target file system is mounted, blanking out the password field (nr 2), e.g. file: /etc/passwd ,--------------------------- | ... | bilbo:x:1001:1001:Bilbo Baffins:/home/bilbo:/bin/bash Notice the colon separated fields. Nr 2 (typically just an 'x' these days, which means "password not here. Go look in /etc/shadow". Just delete it, getting: bilbo::1001:1001:Bilbo Baffins:/home/bilbo:/bin/bash There is a double colon in there now, that is important. Now reboot and bilbo can log in without password. Don't forget to issue passwd to set one again! Having done this exercise is important to get an impression of what password protection is good for and what not :-) regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAleEiw4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2ka8bACeMdIusf55OxqVw663t+kU/vLI G/0An0jaxXdAS+YFWkd3g9avAKxhjL+K =O/mQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
