passwords
Diane Navara
remember it. Help!
Diane Navara
Raj Rijhwani
Di...@Blossoms10.fsnet.co.uk "Diane Navara" wrote:
> How can I find my Password? Start-up asks me to supply but I cannot
> remember it. Help!
You're screwed. <g>
Actually, no. There's no easy way of working out what your password is.
It's (supposedly) one-way encrypted. But what you should be able to do
is boot up from your recovery floppy (you did make one when you installed,
right?) and set a new password.
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Angus Marshall
> On Sunday, in article <cn8g67$ead$1...@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>
> Di...@Blossoms10.fsnet.co.uk "Diane Navara" wrote:
>
>> How can I find my Password? Start-up asks me to supply but I cannot
>> remember it. Help!
>
> You're screwed. <g>
>
> Actually, no. There's no easy way of working out what your password is.
> It's (supposedly) one-way encrypted. But what you should be able to do
> is boot up from your recovery floppy (you did make one when you installed,
> right?) and set a new password.
Or you could always log in as root and change the password on your user
account.
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Raj Rijhwani
an...@n0sp4m.n-gate.n0sp4m.net.n0sp4m "Angus Marshall"
wrote:
> Raj Rijhwani wrote:
>
> > On Sunday, in article <cn8g67$ead$1...@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>
> > Di...@Blossoms10.fsnet.co.uk "Diane Navara" wrote:
> >> How can I find my Password? Start-up asks me to supply but I cannot
> >> remember it. Help!
> > You're screwed. <g>
> > Actually, no. There's no easy way of working out what your password is.
> > It's (supposedly) one-way encrypted. But what you should be able to do
> > is boot up from your recovery floppy (you did make one when you installed,
> > right?) and set a new password.
> Or you could always log in as root and change the password on your user
> account.
I was making the assumption that having forgotten one, they'd forgotten
all. Added to which most novices don't know not to run with root as the
default and hence it's a pretty fair bet that THAT is the forgotten
password, anyway. I took the simplest and boldest leap past all those
possibilities for the sake of simplicity.
But yes, if that option's available it's the quickest route.
Angus Marshall
> On Wednesday, in article <cngk3a$f6h$3...@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>
> an...@n0sp4m.n-gate.n0sp4m.net.n0sp4m "Angus Marshall"
> wrote:
>
>> Raj Rijhwani wrote:
>>
>> > On Sunday, in article <cn8g67$ead$1...@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>
>> > Di...@Blossoms10.fsnet.co.uk "Diane Navara" wrote:
>
>> >> How can I find my Password? Start-up asks me to supply but I cannot
>> >> remember it. Help!
>
>> > You're screwed. <g>
>
>> > Actually, no. There's no easy way of working out what your password
>> > is.
>> > It's (supposedly) one-way encrypted. But what you should be able to do
>> > is boot up from your recovery floppy (you did make one when you
>> > installed, right?) and set a new password.
>
>> Or you could always log in as root and change the password on your user
>> account.
>
> I was making the assumption that having forgotten one, they'd forgotten
> all. Added to which most novices don't know not to run with root as the
> default and hence it's a pretty fair bet that THAT is the forgotten
> password, anyway. I took the simplest and boldest leap past all those
> possibilities for the sake of simplicity.
>
> But yes, if that option's available it's the quickest route.
Quite, but most people forget to disable the option of booting into single
user without a password (runlevel 1)