Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (297 mails)

[Antun Balaz <antun@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And what if the filesystem is encrypted?

Best regards,

Antun Balaz
Institute of Physics, Belgrade
Serbia and Montenegro

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Rikard Johnels wrote:

> On Saturday 24 July 2004 23.29, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 July 2004 16:14, John Andersen wrote:
> > > On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:14 am, Lyle Giese wrote:
> > > > In RH, you could boot into single user mode and be auto
> > > > connected as root without knowing the password.
> > >
> > > And you have conclusively proven that the same method
> > > will not work in SuSE?
> >
> > It's been a while, but I proved it in 8.1. I had a root password get
> > corrupted, I have no idea how, but it did. When I tried to log in single
> > user, it wanted the root password. I used a Knopix CD, mounted my root
> > partition, cleared the root password in shadow, and was able to get it
> > back.
>
> Or you could
> 1. boot via the CD/floppys
> 2. mount the / (rw) (ie. mount /dev/whatever /mnt )
> 3. chroot to the mounted / (chroot /mnt /bin/bash )
> 4. issue passwd to change it (passwd)
>
> Its a "roundabout way" derived from installing Gentoo systems...
>
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>          /Rikard
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