Sven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I need advice: > I am stucked on a country side, with my laptop, only with CD without > floppy, and set of Debian Woody unstable discs. > I also have a 56k modem connection to the internet. > Is there any way of getting pass the login, or just editing > /etc/shadow? I suppose that a program messed something with the > passwd files.
Have you tried breaking in through your bootloader? If not, try booting up with "linux init=/bin/bash" (for lilo). You'll get a shell with the root mounted read only. Run "mount -oremount,rw /" and then you can edit /etc/shadow. Remount / read only again and power cycle. At this point you should be back in business. Good luck. -- Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
