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Old 11-30-2004   #1 (permalink)
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recover root pw?
its hard to say this without people thinking Im being militious but I havent wardrove in a good time and my laptop dualboots FC2 and xp, I ran all my WDing apps on my regular user... named 'user' and user does belong to the root group but I forgot my root PW(yeah Im stupid) So seeing I can log on my user level account and it belongs to the root group is there anyway I can crack my PW? Im running Fedora Core 2. Need anyother info just ask.
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its hard to say this without people thinking Im being militious but I havent wardrove in a good time and my laptop dualboots FC2 and xp, I ran all my WDing apps on my regular user... named 'user' and user does belong to the root group but I forgot my root PW(yeah Im stupid) So seeing I can log on my user level account and it belongs to the root group is there anyway I can crack my PW? Im running Fedora Core 2. Need anyother info just ask.
Seeing how you are a member of the root group, can you change the root password (with the passwd command?) Otherwise, download software to reset the password. This is much quicker than cracking it. Also, in most linux manuals, it explains how to boot into linux single and reset the password.
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yeah i just booted to single and did passwd root and changed it that way thanks. =)

edit: forgot to mention that i think fedora has some protection on my user account because after attempting to log into root 15 or so times with diff passwords i logged in user and it only had read access do the HD so I couldnt edit the passwd file and the shadow file.
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