On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 05:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > If another OS had not been available but I knew the root > password, is there some way I could have gained access as root?
If you don't remember the root's password you need to chroot or systemd-nspawn -D. A hint that very often is censored by German forum admins :D. If you remember the root password, than I don't understand your problem. An idiotic script I don't use, but I wrote to reply to a different, but similar question: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/chpassword #!/bin/sh echo -n "Change password of user: " read username echo -n "Do it being user: " read su_user if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then echo -n "$su_user's "; fi su $su_user -c "passwd $username" echo "Push enter to quit." read push_rtn exit IOW if you could become root, you could do what ever you want. Take a look at what users have an account and change the password of the user you want. You can see all users by $ cat /etc/passwd assumed you forget a username. You can't see the password a user used, but you can change the password, without knowing the user's password. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1394882530.3587.122.camel@archlinux
