[ale] Hacking root password...

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Did you try running fsck on the drive first?  We recently had a case
of an entire directory disappearing because of a corupt ext2
filesystem. 

Carl Forsell writes:
 > "linux 1" takes me to the same point as "linux" or just letting it boot
 > without intervention.  All take me to asking for a password that I don't
 > have.  ( I tried root with no password, and with every password the client
 > could suggest.  All were invalid).
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
 > To: Carl Forsell <cforsell at roman.net>
 > Cc: Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>; ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
 > Date: Friday, July 28, 2000 5:57 PM
 > Subject: Re: [ale] Hacking root password...
 > 
 > 
 > >On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 05:57:19PM -0400, Carl Forsell wrote:
 > >> I used (all lower case) linux 1
 > >
 > > Then it should have worked.  If it didn't, what error did you get?
 > >If you had "linux" as an option to lilo, then why didn't "linux" work?
 > >(The "1" is just a parameter to the boot request, it doesn't change the
 > >boot image you are questing).
 > >
 > >> -----Original Message-----
 > >> From: Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
 > >> To: Carl Forsell <cforsell at roman.net>
 > >> Cc: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
 > >> Date: Friday, July 28, 2000 5:34 PM
 > >> Subject: Re: [ale] Hacking root password...
 > >>
 > >>
 > >> >On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 05:39:05PM -0400, Carl Forsell wrote:
 > >> >> Tried it... it did not take linux 1.  I hit "tab" and "linux" was only
 > >> >> choice available.
 > >> >
 > >> > Huh?
 > >> >
 > >> > If "linux" was the choice available, it certainly should have
 > >> >taken "linux 1" because that's "linux" with a parameter of "1"
 > specifying
 > >> >run level 1.  What EXACTLY did you type in and what EXACTLY was your
 > >> >error (note capitallization and SPACES are significant).
 > >> >
 > >> >> Jeff suggested that the scsi controller may not be initialized by the
 > >> rescue
 > >> >> disk.  Interesting thought, since hack has worked on IDE's in the
 > past.
 > >> >> I'll look into initializing the scsi card and see what happens.
 > >> >>
 > >> >> Thanks for the suggestions.  Your help is deeply appreciated!
 > >> >> -----Original Message-----
 > >> >> From: Michelangelo Grigni <mic at mathcs.emory.edu>
 > >> >> To: cforsell at roman.net <cforsell at roman.net>
 > >> >> Date: Friday, July 28, 2000 5:15 PM
 > >> >> Subject: Re: [ale] Hacking root password...
 > >> >>
 > >> >>
 > >> >> >If you can boot to single user mode (add "1" to lilo prompt?)
 > >> >> >then you might forego the diskette and use whatever mount
 > >> >> >setup they have.
 > >> >> >
 > >> >>
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