Re: Seeking assistance to preserve memories

On Sunday 14 August 2011 11:40:24 Piotr R. Sidorowicz wrote:
> Walt,
> 
> you might want to elaborate on steps 2 and 3. They are cryptic to
> laypeople.

Also many systems now require the password to get into single user mode. 

the instruction here make use of a bootable CD.

http://computersforcommunities.ca/c4c/en/password_reset

But again they probably need some updating for a someone who is not familiar  
with linux.

We had a similar request to the list back in June


> On 11-08-14 11:11 AM, Walt Sullivan wrote:
> > On the system you don't have the password for:
> > 
> > 1. Reboot the system into recovery mode (single user mode).
> > 
> > 2. Remount / read-write.
> > 
> > 3. Edit /etc/shadow, which has 8 colon-separated fields on each line.
> > 
> > 4. Find the entry for the user whose password is lost.
> > 
> > 5. Change the second field to empty, that is. change a line like (sorry
> > about the folding, but it's really all one line):
> > 
> > walt:$6$JBOWINsf
> > $8tG83N1lhOeH11nugz0ZD6CJefsdYKrqd4zIkFEbCd6lxB17OUmTs0gxeqxIlUxDCD6.VhO7
> > MgkGuxqsdbnW90:15197:0:60:10:::
> > 
> > to:
> > 
> > walt::15197:0:60:10:::
> > 
> > 6. Save the file, and let the reboot finish.
> > 
> > 7. Now the password for the user ("walt" in the example above) is empty.
> > Login and use the passwd command to change it.
> > 
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