On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 14:35, Michael Leone wrote: > Now this is embarassing ... > > I just had to reboot my dachstein (floppy) router/firewall for the first > time in 108 days. And now I've forgotten my root password . :-( > > I must have changed it, and forgotten what it was. > > Ordinarily, I would do a "linux single" at the boot prompt. Except that > there's no boot prompt. :-) How can I get back into my system? > The only way I know of is to copy the etc.lrp file from the floppy to a working Linux system and unzip/untar the file and edit /etc/shadow to remove the root pw. Tar and gzip the files and copy archive back onto the floppy. Is there a better way using syslinux?
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