Re: Recover root password

2002-06-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
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 i

Re: Recover root password

2002-06-13 Thread Ulf Rompe
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/Boot.SingleUser.ForgotRootPasswd.txt Somebody should point out that you can use your ordinary Debian Rescue Disk to do this maintenance. Just boot into the normal install process. As soon as the installation menu occures

Re: Recover root password

2002-06-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya patrick good memory.. and the rest of the various ways... to get our passwd if we dont have a fd or cd or broken lilo or ??? .. http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/Boot.SingleUser.ForgotRootPasswd.txt c ya alvin On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Anton

Re: Recover root password

2002-06-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
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 bootd

Recover root password

2002-06-12 Thread Antonio Mu?oz-Flores
Hello, I'm a newbie and I forgot the root password of my personal machine. I just remember my normal user account password, but many administrative tasks requiere to login as root (as you certainly know of course) Is there something I can do to recover the root password or for logging as the root u