-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 July 2004 17:19, Lyle Giese wrote:
As was pointed out in one of the private messages to me, you have to edit inittab to allow that. And one of my points in the question, was you did not have that opportunity prior to having to do password recovery.
It can be done in suse, but just not 'out of the box'.
To allow what? I can boot almost any machine off of Knopix. Once booted, I can mount the partition and edit shadow. I'm not sure I understand what requires editing inittab
Lyle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Satterwhite"
To: "John Andersen" ; Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [suse-security] password recovery 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.
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