[ale] Hacking root password...

[Jeff Hubbs]

Carl -

Do you know as fact that the install and rescue disk are properly bringing
up the SCSI controller?

- Jeff

> -----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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