gentoo go good

[Dre G.]

Nice, I stand corrected. I have never had to reset the password
on the past or present gentoo boxs I have had here locally.

btw thanks for bringing to light tomsrtht seems like a nice tool, Hope I
don't need it soon :P

dre

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 18:49, cdowns wrote:
> dude boot from tomsrtbt and chroot the system and exec passwd.. .. cake 
> walk.
> 
> ~!>D
> 
> Joshua Bergland wrote:
> 
> > This won't work in Gentoo... You have to know the root password to 
> > startup the system in maintanence (single user) mode.
> >
> > Josh
> >
> > Dre G. wrote:
> >
> >> I already replied a bit ago to the orginal poster here but I wanted 
> >> to just say to the group
> >> Whats wrong with good old single user mode ?
> >>
> >> ALOT Less work, All hes trying to do is reset the root password
> >>
> >> linux single
> >> append s under lilo
> >> or init 1
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Joshua Bergland wrote:
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >>> clarification:
> >>>
> >>> To make it easier, I would boot up and do an 'less /etc/fstab' and 
> >>> right down which partitions there are and where they are mounted, 
> >>> that way all you have to do is mount them...
> >>>
> >>> Do that step on the running gentoo system, before you reboot and 
> >>> boot off of the install cd
> >>>
> >>> Josh
> >>>
> >>> Joshua Bergland wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>> You want to head over to forums.gentoo.org ... lots of good info 
> >>>> and helpful people ... if you feel comfortable enough, you can 
> >>>> download the install iso image and burn that to a cd, and then use 
> >>>> the gentoo install document (link below) and follow it up to the 
> >>>> point of running the 'chroot' command to get into the gentoo linux 
> >>>> environment on the system... you are then actually logged into the 
> >>>> system as root and can run 'passwd' to change the root password.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here is the link, it contains links to the install images ... Of 
> >>>> course, just skip the part about creating the filesystems and since 
> >>>> your not doing anything with the network, you can skip that part 
> >>>> too... To make it easier, I would boot up and do an 'less 
> >>>> /etc/fstab' and right down which partitions there are and where 
> >>>> they are mounted, that way all you have to do is mount them... So I 
> >>>> guess that means, boot with the cd, and do steps 7 & 8, and then 
> >>>> run the 'passwd' command, and then reboot the system... You then 
> >>>> can log into the system as root ... In Gentoo, if you want to be 
> >>>> able to 'su' to root, add her user to the 'wheel' group.
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
> >>>>
> >>>> Josh
> >>>>
> >>>> David Reynolds wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 08:30 pm, Eric Rossiter proclaimed:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Hey everyone,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Gentoo is slick, man... been slowly getting acclimated and I have 
> >>>>>> a few
> >>>>>> questions, if I may.
> >>>>>>  
> >>>>>>         
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've got a friend who was 'given' gentoo by her ex, but either I 
> >>>>> am not as smart as I think I am, or she has been severely crippled.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Her ex did not give her a root password. Hence, she cannot do 
> >>>>> things like change the time, emerge/update programs, or a host of 
> >>>>> other things I do regularly on my system. Now he's shipped out and 
> >>>>> she has no access to him for a month plus. When she types 
> >>>>> 'groups', she gets only 'users'; my account on my computer on the 
> >>>>> other hand has about a dozen groups I am member of. Which is to be 
> >>>>> expected?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> As a normal user, I can't start gdm or kdm, tells me only root 
> >>>>>> wants to
> >>>>>> do that.  I tried the fix suggested in the gentoo forums to no 
> >>>>>> avail.
> >>>>>> Any other ideas?
> >>>>>>  
> >>>>>>         
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Where are these forums please? And would they be ANY help to a 
> >>>>> person just starting off of Windows? I feel bad that I am about to 
> >>>>> send her back to Windows, but I did suggest trying something like 
> >>>>> Mandrake or RedHat.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks for your time.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> E
> >>>>>>  
> >>>>>>         
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hope I'm not intruding on your thread,
> >>>>> David
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>       
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> majordomo at kclug.org
> >>>>     
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>
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Dre G. <enabled at linuxjunkies.com>