On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:09 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Alex Hewitt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a laptop that was setup for a family member using a > Zenwalk > install. The laptop doesn't have a functional CD reader and I > don't have > the root password. I am able to easily pull the hard drive and > mount it > as a USB external drive to my Ubuntu system. I can see the > passwd and > shadow files and the lilo.conf file. Is there an easy way to > edit the > shadow password file to set a good password for root? Or might > it be > easier to modify the lilo.conf file to get into single user > mode and set > a new password from there? > > The current root password line in the shadow password file is: > > root:$1$yDo/7BS7$y8McHMKPj3hTRnSl.HTrO/:13427:0::::: > > Can I just remove the string "$1$yDo/7BS7 > $y8McHMKPj3hTRnSl.HTrO/" to > edit out the password or do I need to replace it with > something else? > > -Alex > > vi shadow > :s/:1$yDo/7BS7$y8McHMKPj3hTRnSl.HTrO\/"/::/ > :wq > > > root now has no password.... >
Thanks to both responders. Stripping out the characters between the first and second colons did the trick. I now have full control of the system. -Alex _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
