forgot password workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two methods: 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: $ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd in order to then run the chroot and the

Re: forgot password workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Haines Brown wrote: I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two methods: 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: $ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd in order to then run

Re: forgot password workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Mike McCarty
Haines Brown wrote: I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two methods: 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: $ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd in order to then run

Re: forgot password workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Kent West
Haines Brown wrote: I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two methods: 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: $ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd in order to then run

Re: forgot password workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
Haines Brown wrote: I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two methods: 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: $ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd in

Re: forgot password workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Mike McCarty
Haines Brown wrote: [snip] I've seen the directions for editing /etc/shadow, but also the warning that this is dangerous and need not be done. Therefore my second approach, which has the advantage of not depending on a cd drive or live CD (not too sure what that is). It is supposed to work,

Re: forgot password workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Kent West
Haines Brown wrote: live CD (not too sure what that is). A bootable CD running a live OS, such as Knoppix. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]