[NBLUG/talk] Lost Passwords

Ian Sutherland iansuth at fastmail.fm
Tue Mar 22 22:30:14 PST 2005


Whatever I did, none of the passwords, root, users, work at login of
Debian sarge.
The problem started when I installed "olvwm". I was able to remove it
but things went from bad to worse.
Is it possible to fix this problem? I have a Knoppix 3.4 disk.
I tried accessing /etc/passwd from Knoppix to install a new user but
it's read only.
The file looks normal.
I was not able to change Permissions.
I cannot use the recovery option at boot. The root password does not
work.

Thanks, Ian
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Ian Sutherland
2 Varda Street
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
iansuth at fastmail.fm




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