passwords

[Diane Navara]

How can I find my Password? Start-up asks me to supply but I cannot
remember it. Help!

Diane Navara

[Raj Rijhwani]

Post by Diane Navara
How can I find my Password? Start-up asks me to supply but I cannot
remember it. Help!

You're screwed. <g>

Actually, no. There's no easy way of working out what your password is.
It's (supposedly) one-way encrypted. But what you should be able to do
is boot up from your recovery floppy (you did make one when you installed,
right?) and set a new password.

[Angus Marshall]

Post by Raj Rijhwani

Post by Diane Navara
How can I find my Password? Start-up asks me to supply but I cannot
remember it. Help!

You're screwed. <g>
Actually, no. There's no easy way of working out what your password is.
It's (supposedly) one-way encrypted. But what you should be able to do
is boot up from your recovery floppy (you did make one when you installed,
right?) and set a new password.

Or you could always log in as root and change the password on your user
account.

[Raj Rijhwani]

Post by Angus Marshall

Post by Raj Rijhwani

Post by Diane Navara
How can I find my Password? Start-up asks me to supply but I cannot
remember it. Help!

You're screwed. <g>
Actually, no. There's no easy way of working out what your password is.
It's (supposedly) one-way encrypted. But what you should be able to do
is boot up from your recovery floppy (you did make one when you installed,
right?) and set a new password.

Or you could always log in as root and change the password on your user
account.

I was making the assumption that having forgotten one, they'd forgotten
all. Added to which most novices don't know not to run with root as the
default and hence it's a pretty fair bet that THAT is the forgotten
password, anyway. I took the simplest and boldest leap past all those
possibilities for the sake of simplicity.

But yes, if that option's available it's the quickest route.

[Angus Marshall]

Post by Raj Rijhwani

Post by Angus Marshall

Post by Raj Rijhwani

Post by Diane Navara
How can I find my Password? Start-up asks me to supply but I cannot
remember it. Help!

You're screwed. <g>
Actually, no. There's no easy way of working out what your password is.
It's (supposedly) one-way encrypted. But what you should be able to do
is boot up from your recovery floppy (you did make one when you
installed, right?) and set a new password.

Or you could always log in as root and change the password on your user
account.

I was making the assumption that having forgotten one, they'd forgotten
all. Added to which most novices don't know not to run with root as the
default and hence it's a pretty fair bet that THAT is the forgotten
password, anyway. I took the simplest and boldest leap past all those
possibilities for the sake of simplicity.
But yes, if that option's available it's the quickest route.

Quite, but most people forget to disable the option of booting into single
user without a password (runlevel 1)