You don't need a live-usb/cd. If your boot system is grub you only have to change command to exec=/bin/bash
Once you are in your system you can change root password and others. Toni Mas Missatge de Stanislav Vlasov <stanislav....@gmail.com> del dia dt., 17 de gen. 2023 a les 7:15: > > вт, 17 янв. 2023 г. в 11:01, David <david.g_jo...@ntlworld.com>: > > > I have forgotten my password to a Debian PC using an SD stick as it's > > main drive. > > > Looking on the internet it says the passwords are stored in /etc/passwd > > and /etc/shadow > > In /etc/shadow only password's hashes, some data, one-way calculated > from password string. > > > The password string in /etc/shadow looks as if it's encoded, how can I > > read this string? > > You can't. > But you can set new password, if you boot from live-usb/live-cd, mount > your system to dir and run `chroot dir && passwd $user` > > -- > Stanislav >
