I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our business. Can anyone advise me how I may be able to get into the system?
I am getting pretty desperate
If the machine uses grub, try pressing 'e' when the machine gives a list of operating systems to boot, (at startup, right after the BIOS screen). This will let you edit the boot command.
select the line that reads: kernel blah blah
and press 'e' again - this should let you edit this line.
Add a space and 'single' to the end of the line, then press enter and then 'b'.
This /should/ boot the machine into single user mode, bypassing any passwords.
Of course his machine could be using lilo as the bootloader, (unlikely), or grub could be passworded, or indeed there could be additional security measures on the boot procedure, but the above should work for a generic gentoo install.
Regards, MAL
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