futureproofing could include encrypting passwords then logging those on paper in encrypted form. Just remember where you keep that log and remember your encryption for recovery if you forget your password again. Us totally blind people not only have braille as an encryption technique but other forms of writing we can use in braille for additional encryption.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Tue, 17 Jan 2023, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > ??, 17 ???. 2023 ?. ? 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` > >
