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16 Sep
2020
16 Sep
'20
14:49
Felix Miata wrote:
Carl Spitzer {L Juno} composed on 2020-09-15 18:33 (UTC-0700):
I have gone and dome something dumb and lost the paper with the root password. In the old days a Knoppix disk could be used to boot a system and remove the password indicator. Thus clearing the root password and allowing a new one to be set Is this still true?
I don't recall ever trying that method. I boot any live Linux media that knows how to mount the / filesystem, mount it, chroot to it, and execute the passwd command.
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