petekarl at student
Feb 11, 2005, 9:36 AM
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Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root.
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, John Servo wrote:
> it would be amazingly unlikely that someone has compromised your box
> without them sending you a trojan and even then, trojans are rather
> ineffective unless you run them as root..
> if your in knoppix mount your / partition with /etc on, and use a text
> editor to change /etc/shadow the top line will look something like this:
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> root:$1$O6TTb8zH$zpsf/sfslfka0dj9Av:12300:0:::::
> delete the hash to leave
> root::12300:0:::::
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> click save, do the same in /etc/shadow- (a backup password file) and
> reboot, your root password will be blank.
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> should get you going again :)
But why would this happen? And, thanks for the info but I changed the
password via chroot'ing from knoppix...
Thanks for the input!
Best regards
Peter K
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