On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 1:15 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:31, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 6:10 pm, ed tharp wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:55, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: > > > > > Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can > > > > > reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password > > > > > for root or any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it? > > > > > > > > > > James S. Lawson > > > > > Network Administrator > > > > > > > > The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the > > > > computer up in Single User mode and reset root password from > > > > there. You should be able to do that by putting options in > > > > Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user mode. > > > > > > > > If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you > > > > can reset the root password without some type of reinstall. > > > > > > and you can password protect the BIOS. and lock the door to the > > > room the box is held in. > > > > Perhaps I'm being thick, but I thought he was concerned about > > passwords in his windows partition? > > > > Anne > > and wanted to change them. Which is why I recommended TRK. It could > be done with a Mandrake disk if you were exceedingly clever and > knew what you wanted to do, but Trinity Rescue Kit has prebuilt > tools for this task
Ah - I see. I don't know TRK, but I can see that it would be an excellent tool for sysadmins. I was confused because most of the answers seemed to be pointing towards changing his root password - or so I thought. Never mind, I'll go back to sleep <g> Anne
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