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> The best general scheme on a remote box is to stuff the disk into a machine
> and without mounting it replace any disk block starting root:........:dfgkd
> with your own password string.

  I don't have any idea how to do that, or even were to start looking for how
to do that...  Could you give me a place I could begin searching or reading?