From: Ali Almahdi <ali@almahdi.cc>
To: Steven Elliott <selliott4@austin.rr.com>
Cc: "Christopher J. Pace" <cpace@hnsg.net>,
User Mode Linux Devel
<user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] root password for root_fs_slack8.1 image?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:23:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4080CD5B.50202@almahdi.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4080AF6D.4030206@austin.rr.com>
Steven Elliott wrote:
> Christopher J. Pace wrote:
>
>> Does anyone happen to know the root password for this image? It isn't
>> root, none, slack, or anything else I could think of. Please send to me
>> personally, as I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks to all.
>>
>>
> I'm not sure what it is (have not tried that one), but you should be
> able to mount the filesystem using the loop device:
> mount -o loop /tmp/slack_fs /mnt/misc
> and then edit the password file in order to blank out the password for
> root:
> cd /mnt/misc/etc
> vi passwd
>
You should change the password in shadow, not in the passwd...
Just change the unreadable text to nothing and the password will be blank..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-17 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-17 3:52 [uml-devel] root password for root_fs_slack8.1 image? Christopher J. Pace
2004-04-17 4:15 ` Steven Elliott
2004-04-17 6:23 ` Ali Almahdi [this message]
2004-04-17 6:21 ` Ali Almahdi
2004-04-17 16:40 ` Henrik Nordstrom
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