Hi Indra,
OK.What if you have no CD,no boot/rescue disk - nothing.Is there anyway
to get into the system or get back the root passwd??
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Rajarshi Guha | Do molecular biologists
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On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Indranil Das Gupta wrote:
> Simple, you build one ... Boot the m/c from the installation CD... most distros have
>the option to build a bootdisk,
> without installing anything on your HDD... and IIRC, slackware provides one of the
>nicest way to go about it among all
> the other distros (comments from slackware-wallahs invited ;)
>
> --Indra.
>
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> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] root password problem
> > Date: Saturday, September 25, 1999 10:37 AM
> >
> > Hi Indra,
> > out of interest,what do you do if you don't have a rescue or bootdisk?
> >
> >
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> > Rajarshi Guha | Do molecular biologists
> > Dept Of Chemistry | wear designer genes ??
> > IIT Kharagpur |
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> > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Indranil Das Gupta wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Boot the m/c using the rescue bootdisk. Once you are at the root prompt,
> > > use the passwd command to change the password....and try not to lose it
> > > again :-)
>
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