PASSWORD LOST!!

[Julien Gormotte]

Le 12/02/2010 02:24, Olivier Nicole a écrit :
>>>> If you have physical access to the server, just reboot it in single user
>>>>          
>>> mode,
>>>        
>>>> and change the password. You might need to forcibly power it off. It is
>>>>          
>>> all
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>>>> covered in the handbook. If you don't have physical access,  I think you
>>>>          
>>> may
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>>>> be out of luck...
>>>>
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>>> May be out of luck? I would hope he is totally out of luck without
>>> physical access, if
>>> you get my drift!
>>>
>>> Hope you do have physical access Eric....
>>>
>>>        
>> May not be out of luck depending on if the machine has had the last couple
>> of years worth of updates. I'm guessing not if nobody has the root password
>> and the persom who had set it up in the first place has been MIA for who
>> knows how long.
>>      
> I was thinking along the same lines, but at same time Eric didn't know
> about booting to single user, so would he be able to remotely hack
> into his own system?
>
> Olivier
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If this is a dedicated server (or a VPS, or RPS, or any type of server 
hosted by a server provider), you may have a rescue system, so you can 
boot it and chroot yourself to access the system. Or, in some cases, you 
can have a KVM-over-IP access, so you can boot into single user mode.