Root password Acer Aspire One

Ten Tenths

I just cant remember the password I used when I setup this netbook. Its the Linpus Lite version. How can I recover/ reset the password? Will the recovery disc be enough?

velocirafter

to change the root password, use Alt-F2 to run Terminal, then change to root user with ’sudo su’ and then change the password with passwd

velocirafter

if that doesnt work try typing sudo bash in the terminal and then type passwd

Ten Tenths

Velocirafter. The sudo bash worked a treat. Thank you kindly.:)

velocirafter

great, i dunno why it works though, it really shouldn't

An Fear Aniar

velocirafter wrote: »

great, i dunno why it works though, it really shouldn't

Yeah, I'm surprised, I would have thought you would be asked for a password after typing "sudo su".

user1@vaio-laptop:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for user1: 

This is what happens if I try that stunt in Boontoo.


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Ten Tenths

Althought I am delighted it worked, is this a security flaw? Surely anyone who might pick up the netbook could could so easily change the root password and take over the machine!!!:eek:

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Can be sorted out: http://johan.zandhoven.org/node/14
http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2008/Acer-Aspire-One-and-cosy

/edit: but can cause problems apparently

gagomes

[php]
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
# Tested on HP-UX.
# Takes a list of disks that are empty (Free PE == Total PE).
#
# PVs which failed on a pvdisplay are saved in the 'failed' file.
#
# The ouput is similar to:
#
# vgfc /dev/dsk/c6t5d0



>failed

for i in `strings /etc/lvmtab/|egrep ^\/dev\/dsk`;
do
pvdisplay $i 2>/dev/null > /dev/null
if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then
echo $i = `pvdisplay $i|egrep 'VG Name|Total PE|Free PE'` | awk '{ if ($8 == $11) { print $5, " ", $1 } }'
else
echo $i >> failed
fi
done

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