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Yes, when you boot it, hit escape as soon as you see the Grub menu. Click the latest kernel with the "Recovery Mode" next to it. When/if it asks, tell it to drop you to a root terminal. From there, you have unlimited access to everything on the system. To change a user's password to whatever you want, run the following:passwd USERNAMEAnd if you need to change root's password, just runn passwd without any arguments.There's no need to bruteforce the hashes in /etc/shadow when you can easily do the above in less than a few minutes.
... From there, you have unlimited access to everything on the system. ...
Quote from: jrgp on January 17, 2009, 04:04:07 am... From there, you have unlimited access to everything on the system. ...You've got to love an operating system where, by default, it takes only 3 sentences to get to that one above.Of course, the alternatives are even worse.