[NBLUG/talk] Lost Passwords

Augie Schwer augie.schwer at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 00:09:01 PST 2005


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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:30:14 -0800, Ian Sutherland <iansuth at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Whatever I did, none of the passwords, root, users, work at login of
> Debian sarge.

Boot into single user mode; at the boot prompt type:

linux single

That will drop you to a root shell without a password prompt.

Augie.


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GPG Public Key: http://www.schwer.us/schwer.asc
Key fingerprint = 9815 AE19 AFD1 1FE7 5DEE 2AC3 CB99 2784 27B0 C072


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