On passwords, securtiy and real -sweat, blook and tears- life

[Tim]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 16:16 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> As far as fixing a "lost" password, one can use just about any
> LiveCD to boot and fix that up. I like Knoppix, but I suspect
> that the Fedora Rescue CD can be used just as well for this.

If you hadn't password protected GRUB, you wouldn't even need to do
that.  You'd just go into edit mode, and stick a 1 at the end of the
kernel line.  Then you'd be able to boot and change the password.

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