[Tfug] Cracking a root password?

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 10 Sep 2007 at 17:47, Christopher Robbins  wrote:

> It's an older Debian machine...I've been wanting to move it to a more recent
> Debian (or SUSE) server.  Just need to get some data first.

ISTR with older boxes like this just boot into single-user mode allows you full 
access w/o the root pwd..

    Forgot Password - Ubuntu Forums
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=230130.

HTH

Angus


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