Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Liviu Andronic: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > > > > > > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log > > > in there fine. Can I recover the root password? > > > > If you could passwords were useless. ;-) > > > > But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then > > give root another password. > > But then, conventional passwords are as useless. One needs no more > than physical access to the computer, a LiveCD and a couple minutes in > order to become the super user of your system. Basically, the password > seems useful only to know whether anyone has changed it behind your > back.
That's only true if you didn't do anything else to protect the system. All
the above is useless if the / filesystem is encrypted.
> I am starting to wonder why am I so attached to my root password being
> strong.. :)
Because it protects your system from abuse.
Bye...
Dirk
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