On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:28:18PM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > I forgot root pasword on my just installed server. > I've tryed to recover it by going to single user, then doing > mount -a; passwd root, but no success. It says "entropy device > blocking. Dance fandago on keyboard to unlock". > what can I do?
Like it says, type a lot of gibberish into the keyboard. One of the
places the system can derive randomness from is the time interval
between key presses. If you're worried about accidentally typing a
command and hosing your system, then you can start by doing:
# cat >/dev/null
type arbitrary stuff for a few minutes, and then hit Ctrl-D.
Then try re-running passwd(1).
Alternatively you can edit /etc/master.passwd using vipw(1) and simply
delete the crypttext of the password for the root account. Then boot
back into multi user, and immediately log in as root and set a new
password.
Cheers,
Matthew
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