From: Steven Elliott <selliott4@austin.rr.com>
To: "Christopher J. Pace" <cpace@hnsg.net>
Cc: User Mode Linux Devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] root password for root_fs_slack8.1 image?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 23:15:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4080AF6D.4030206@austin.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59953.192.168.0.23.1082173959.squirrel@hnsg.net>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-17 4:15 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 [this message]
2004-04-17 6:23 ` Ali Almahdi
2004-04-17 6:21 ` Ali Almahdi
2004-04-17 16:40 ` Henrik Nordstrom
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