[ale] Hacking root password...

[Gary Maltzen]

Are you certain that /dev/sda1 is root? The fact that it doesn't appear to have an 'etc' subdirectory indicates otherwise. If it were my system, sda1 would probably be the /boot partition, sda2 swap and sda3 (finally) root.

What does 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' report?


>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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