Re: admin password?

2012-12-31 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 31.12.2012 00:32, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:51:38AM +0200, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I

Re: admin password?

2012-12-31 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 31.12.2012 06:03, Osamu Aoki wrote: If you did not lock system with grub password, you can always login as root without password. Google with grub init=/bin/bash mount you get many howtos describing: Boot with init=/bin/bash or

Re: admin password?

2012-12-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Please do not top-post. Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2012 schrieb Dionyssis Goulimis: On 12/30/12, Dionyssis Goulimis dionyssi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to stop using an Admin

Re: admin password?

2012-12-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 31. Dezember 2012 schrieb Mika Suomalainen: On 31.12.2012 06:03, Osamu Aoki wrote: If you did not lock system with grub password, you can always login as root without password. Google with grub init=/bin/bash mount you get many howtos describing: Boot with

Re: admin password?

2012-12-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi! I know two ways, how to crack a system with a lost root password. 1. Use a livefile-cd like knoppix and mount the partitition witrh /etc/shadow on. Then remove everything at root between the first two :: At next boot, you will not be asked for a root password. 2. Boot with kon-boot.

Re: admin password?

2012-12-30 Thread Dionyssis Goulimis
but how do you run sudo su - root? from Grub? dionyssis 2012/12/30, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net: If your normal user is in /etc/sudoers, then run sudo su - root to become the root user. With sudo, you have to enter your normal password to use it. good luck On 12/30/12, Dionyssis

Re: admin password?

2012-12-30 Thread Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras
supposing that you are Greek , I send u a email in Greek how to do chroot ... :) good luck Στις 30/12/2012 07:21 μμ, ο/η Dionyssis Goulimis έγραψε: but how do you run sudo su - root? from Grub? dionyssis 2012/12/30, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net: If your normal user is in

Re: admin password?

2012-12-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:51:38AM +0200, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to stop using an Admin

Re: admin password?

2012-12-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 12/30/12, Dionyssis Goulimis dionyssi...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/12/30, Dionyssis Goulimis dionyssi...@gmail.com: I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the

Re: admin password?

2012-12-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:50:20AM +0200, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to recover it? If you did not lock system with grub password, you can always login as root without

Re: admin password?

2012-12-30 Thread Bob Proulx
I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to stop using an Admin password? Use the install disk to boot into rescue mode. This will allow you to become root on the image. Then change the password as other have suggested.

Re: admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Dionyssis Goulimis
Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to stop using an Admin password? Best, Dionyssis Goulimis 2012/12/30, Dionyssis Goulimis dionyssi...@gmail.com: Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I

Re: admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:51:38AM +0200, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to stop using an Admin password? You mean the root password. It might be quicker to reinstall, and don't

Re: admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
If your normal user is in /etc/sudoers, then run sudo su - root to become the root user. With sudo, you have to enter your normal password to use it. good luck On 12/30/12, Dionyssis Goulimis dionyssi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't

Re: admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Yaro Kasear
If that option doesn't work out, you can usually grab any old Linux live media of the same architecture as what you have installed and set up a chroot onto your install, which will get you root access onto your installed system. Then you just run passwd to change it. On 12/29/2012 11:58 PM,

Re: admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Go Linux
--- On Sat, 12/29/12, Dionyssis Goulimis dionyssi...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dionyssis Goulimis dionyssi...@gmail.com Subject: admin password? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, December 29, 2012, 10:50 PM Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't

Re: Admin password (cn=admin,dc=config) for OpenLDAP in Debian Squeeze

2011-02-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 05:05:56PM +0200, Razvan Deaconescu wrote: Hi! I've browsed the configuration page for slapd[1] and it mentions that, for starting from version 2.3, The LDAP configuration engine allows all of slapd's configuration options to be changed on the fly, generally without

Re: Admin password (cn=admin,dc=config) for OpenLDAP in Debian Squeeze

2011-02-02 Thread Razvan Deaconescu
On 02/02/2011 05:24 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 05:05:56PM +0200, Razvan Deaconescu wrote: Hi! I've browsed the configuration page for slapd[1] and it mentions that, for starting from version 2.3, The LDAP configuration engine allows all of slapd's configuration options to