gentoo go good

[cdowns]

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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