On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:03:25AM -0500, Robert C Wittig wrote:
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> Joan Leach wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > This is for a friend's Toshiba laptop WinXP + PcLinuxOS LXDE 2009
> > install, I know the tools for the Window's side, but I'm trying to
> > figure out the Un-Shadow, word list, and if Tom's is the way to go.
> > I think I have a Backdoor Live CD, but I haven't used it yet, and
> > would feel better trying it out on a test PC instead of his laptop.
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> Lost root passwords can usually be replaced by booting via Linus single
> mode:
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> http://www.linuxforums.org/articles/howto-recover-root-password_54.html
This depends upon the distribution--should work with RH based
distributions, and PCLinuxOS is, IIRC, from Mandrake, which came from
RH, so that should work. Others, such as Gentoo, will ask for the root
password before allowing you to do anything.
If PCLinuxOS doesn't allow the single user mode method, you can boot with
puppy, mount the installation you want to
change, do a chroot into it, and set the password there.
I have an outdated page (it was for resetting Ubuntu's grub if you
installed a Fedora, a common issue on Fedora forums, but doesn't work
with the grub2 that Ubuntu now uses, hence, its outdatedness, if there
is such a word), that covers doing chroot. You can follow that, and
once you're in the chroot environment, reset the password if the single
user mode boot doesn't work.
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Scott Robbins
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