[ale] Hacking root password

[Carl Forsell]

Well, back to this beast... I have been trying this suggestion as well as
others and have had no luck.

I can catch it at the lilo boot and enter linux -s... it does take me to
single user mode... and then asks for the root password.

I have noticed that the "recovery" disk that I have tried booting from is
generic and it appears as though the scsi controller is not being
initialized

I pray to thee, oh gods of knowledge, help me to rise from this sea of
ignorance and dispair that are binding my very soul!

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hyland <john.hyland at zapmedia.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: cforsell at roman.net <cforsell at roman.net>
Date: Friday, July 28, 2000 10:49 PM
Subject: RE: [ale] Hacking root password


>Carl,
>
>If you have physical access to the machine, can you just boot into single
user
>mode ('linux -s' at the LILO: prompt) and use 'passwd root' to change the
>password?
>
>- John Hyland
>
>----Original Message-----
>> From: Carl Forsell [mailto:cforsell at roman.net]
>> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 5:15 PM
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: [ale] Hacking root password...
>>
>>
>> I have a customer's server that they lost the password, and
>> want me to hack.
>> They are running SuSE6.3 with scsi drives as sda1 & sda2. The
>> box is a Dell
>> PIII.
>>
>> I booted with the install disk, used the rescue disk and tried the
>> mount  -t ext2 /dev/sda1/mnt" command.  I tried to go to
>> /mnt/etc/ and edit
>> the passwd file (I have done this 5 or 6 times on other
>> machines and have
>> never had a problem).  On this box, I can not get to
>> /mnt/etc!!!  (I have
>> tried just about every imaginable combination of the "mount"
>> string - with
>> ext2, without ext2, with & without the -t, ...)
>>
>> I hacked a similar box that had IDE drives as hda1, 2. and 3
>> and had no
>> problem.  Any suggestions?
>

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