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
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
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
You say you were able to mount that system's disk
on another system? In that case I think it might
also have been possible accomplish it thus:
chroot rootMountPointHere
passwd root
...at which point the passwd utility would have
allowed you to enter a new password and updated
all the
