[Ilugc] Tips of the day (Lost Root Password)
- From: darthsitius@xxxxxxxxx (Varrun Ramani)
- Date: Tue Jan 19 16:22:28 2010
2010/1/12 Vishnu Raj <vishnukraj007@xxxxxxxxx>
Hai friends, today we see about how to delete the forgotten password.
Yea, logging in single user mode is much easier. We will need to handle the
shadow and passwd files only if we need to bruteforce the root password to
find out what it earlier was :) which i presume only a cracker would need :)
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Thanks & Regards
Varrun Ramani
Amrita University '10
Web: varrunr.wordpress.com
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