recover login and password
 

Hi everybody

I-ve got a PC with a dual boot Ubuntu and slackware. Since I-ve been using ubuntu for the past few months I forgot slackware login and password. I tried to recover them using ophcrack but I didn-t manage.

How can I do? Can I try with a live cd? If so, where canI look fot the login and password?

Thanks for any help

Hi,

You say it's a dual boot so all you have to do is chroot into the slackware OS from the Ubuntu OS.

In short (but check before doing this blindly):

say Slackware's root (/) is on sda2

In ubuntu do:

# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
# chroot /mnt /bin/bash

(now you are in your slack environment)
# source /etc/profile
(change your password)
# passwd
# exit
(now you are back in ubuntu)

# exit

reboot into slack and use your password.

Remember, this is done of the top of my head, check it first.

Hope this helps

Thanks and sorry for my replying so late. I really coldn't get to my PC before now.
I'll try to put into work what you suggested me

I'll start off looking for mount. (???)

Thanks again

Running "bash -l" is a good idea after chrooting. A login shell will run the .profile, setting up the PATH variable.

I had a situation where zeroing out the password wouldn't work. Somehow I never set the root password when I installed it that time. So I simply copied my regular user's password hash for root's, and then rebooted. I could log in with my regular users password, and use "passwd" to set it again.

Thanks for that... will remember for future use. My advice came directly from Gentoo user manual. ;)

Did you end up fixing your problem gawain?

Sorry, but really I had no time to try to solve the problem seriously. For a couple of days, I think, I'll be "working" on something else.

Just I want to take the chance to wish merry Christmas to everybody