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Cracking here could mean you loosing the pass, you doing a security audit or you wanting to gain knowledge of something out of your (legitimate) reach. If it's option three you're at the wrong board, for the other options please specify which pass you're talking about.
When the machine boots, normally two options appears, one for windows & the other for the linux. it also give you the option to press 'p', after which it ask for a password. i want to crack this password. if you can help me do let me know? thankyou very much indeed.
i want simply the boot password not the bios boot password
My dad uses a GRUB password on my computer to let me from getting behind my comp all day, i did actually crack the BIOS password he had, but i can't crack this, can anyone help me?
Maybe you should take the hint and get out from behind the computer for a bit. And if you actually read the rules of this board, you'll find that this sort of discussion isn't allowed.
Originally posted by Hangdog42 Maybe you should take the hint and get out from behind the computer for a bit. And if you actually read the rules of this board, you'll find that this sort of discussion isn't allowed.
Haha, i'm not behind the computer that much, it's just annoying to have to ask that password over and over again. And what purpose has this forum if you can't actually ask questions you have
Originally posted by sennabutton My dad uses a GRUB password on my computer to let me from getting behind my comp all day,
Once you log onto the computer as root (or boot to some other system like Knoppix), you can just edit the "/boot/grub/grub.conf" file and remove the line that starts with "password ...". This removes the password. (I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for.)
Originally posted by sennabutton Haha, i'm not behind the computer that much, it's just annoying to have to ask that password over and over again. And what purpose has this forum if you can't actually ask questions you have
The point is that these forums don't exist to promote bad behaviour and cracking security or circumventing the rules that the owner of a computer has put in place is bad behaviour in my book. You got legit quetsions? Ask away. You want to crack a computer, take it somewhere else.
I don't think he wants to crack any passwords or anything; he just doesn't want to have a bootloader password. And he could have just as easily said "I own this computer"; would it make that much of a difference?
Originally posted by spooon I don't think he wants to crack any passwords or anything; he just doesn't want to have a bootloader password. And he could have just as easily said "I own this computer"; would it make that much of a difference?
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