Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:34 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > Maerlyn wrote: > > Hy, > > > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created wo

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Maerlyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hy, thanks everyone, I did the livecd-mount-chroot-passwd way, and it worked. Maerlyn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCZSSgMkyacQzgalcRAsa0AJ96

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread YoYo Siska
Maerlyn wrote: > Hy, > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my root passwd? you can change it:

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread A. R.
Hello, Have you done the following? 1. Boot with the live cd. 2. Mount your "/" partition somewhere (/mnt/gentoo) most likely. 3. Run "chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash" 4. Run passwd to change the password of the root account. 5. Reboot (without the livecd). FWIW, Whenever I forget the root password

RE: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my root passwd? > Boot from live cd, mount and execute ch

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 16:35, Maerlyn wrote: > Hy, > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Brett Curtis
put in the live disk again mount drives and chroot to your gentoo install then issue the passwd root command. On 4/19/05, Maerlyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hy, > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd a

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Maerlyn wrote: > Hy, > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my root passwd? Boot as single us

[gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Maerlyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hy, I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. Is there any way to recover my root passw