Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/11/2024 01:11, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 22 Nov 2024 12:40 -0500, from e...@gmx.us: Boot off rescue media, mount the victim's / partition somewhere, then edit /etc/shadow to change the second field (deliminated by colons) to the null string.[...] If what you are talking about is instead

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Paoli
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 9:27 AM The David wrote: > We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company. We are moving > to another state and we forgot the password. Is there anyway to recover this > without losing data? Thank you. Yikes! That kernel goes back to Debian 7 - released 2

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Dan Ritter
e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 11/22/24 11:56, The David wrote: > > We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company. We are > > moving to another state and we forgot the password. Is there anyway to > > recover this without losing data? Thank you. > > Boot off rescue media, mount the vic

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, While people here can and will attempt to talk you through resolving your problem… On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 04:56:23PM +, The David wrote: > We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company This is an ancient kernel version and 32-bit (as denoted by 686-pae) is also inadvisab

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:56:23 + The David wrote: > We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company. We are > moving to another state and we forgot the password. Is there anyway > to recover this without losing data? Thank you. You can boot the machine with a live system, mount t

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 22 Nov 2024 12:40 -0500, from e...@gmx.us: >> We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company. We >> are moving to another state and we forgot the password. Is there >> anyway to recover this without losing data? Thank you. > > Boot off rescue media, mount the victim's / partition

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread tomas
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 04:56:23PM +, The David wrote: > We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company. We are moving > to another state and we forgot the password. Is there anyway to recover this > without losing data? Thank you. Which password? If it is some user's or root

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread eben
On 11/22/24 11:56, The David wrote: > We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company. We are moving > to another state and we forgot the password. Is there anyway to recover this > without losing data? Thank you. Boot off rescue media, mount the victim's / partition somewhere, the

Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread The David
We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company. We are moving to another state and we forgot the password. Is there anyway to recover this without losing data? Thank you. Sincerely, David Have a good day!