[conspire] conspire Digest, Vol 81, Issue 12

Sat Mar 27 13:48:04 PDT 2010

Thanks to everyone who answered my call, I am confident I can fix the problem with the info provided by you.
Jose

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>    1. Where is  my Pwd? (jose tav)
>    2. Re: Where is  my Pwd? (Rick
> Moen)
>    3. Re: Where is my Pwd? (Tony Godshall)
>    4. Re: Where is my Pwd? (Rick Moen)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:21:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: jose tav <j_tav at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [conspire] Where is  my Pwd?
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
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> Hi Folks,
> My little netbook Atom N180 at times is acting on me.
> I don?t remeber setting any password for it, of course I
> could be wrong.
> The need arise when I put it in sleep and I woke it up ask
> for the Pwd but not a cool boot. Any way, where (directory)
> I should go and what to look for and how to reset the pwd.
> Thanks
> Jose
> PS. greetings from Bolivia, where I find myself for some
> two months now, look forward to see you Folks back in the
> States in a month
> 
> 
> 
>       
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:29:28 -0700
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Where is  my Pwd?
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
> Message-ID: <20100327002928.GB21369 at linuxmafia.com>
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> Quoting jose tav (j_tav at yahoo.com):
> 
> > Hi Folks,
> > My little netbook Atom N180 at times is acting on me.
> > I don?t remeber setting any password for it, of course
> I could be wrong.
> > The need arise when I put it in sleep and I woke it up
> ask for the Pwd
> > but not a cool boot. Any way, where (directory) I
> should go and what
> > to look for and how to reset the pwd.
> 
> Hi, Jose.  It's a little unclear from your posting
> what's asking you for
> a password.  For example, you could be talking about a
> piece of software
> (a utility provided by the operating system) asking you for
> a password,
> or you could be talking about the BIOS-based hardware code
> asking you
> for a password.
> 
> If the latter, you'll need to go into the system BIOS and
> look for the
> subscreen for setting a password.  Pay attention to
> the descriptions
> carefully.
> 
> I suspect it's software, however.  I'm betting you
> _did_ supply a
> password during installation, but you also set the machine
> to autologin
> at startup time.
> 
> You cannot find out what your user password is currently
> set to, on
> Linux systems.  However, try this, to set it to a new
> value:
> 
> Open a shell prompt.  Type "passwd" and a carriage
> return.  This is the
> password-setting program.
> 
> Unfortunately, it is likely that "passwd" will prompt you
> to provide
> your current password, before it will be willing to let you
> set a new
> value.  If it does that, then you'll need to "break
> in" to the system
> with root authority at startup time.
> 
> Here is a page that details how to do so in Ubuntu:
> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword
> 
> Frankly, it'll be about the same on any other distribution,
> too.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:36:29 -0700
> From: Tony Godshall <tony at of.net>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Where is my Pwd?
> To: jose tav <j_tav at yahoo.com>
> Cc: conspire <conspire at linuxmafia.com>
> Message-ID:
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> 
> Wrick wrote...
> > Unfortunately, it is likely that "passwd" will prompt
> you to provide
> > your current password, before it will be willing to
> let you set a new
> > value. ?If it does that, then you'll need to "break
> in" to the system
> > with root authority at startup time.
> >
> > Here is a page that details how to do so in Ubuntu:
> > http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword
> >
> > Frankly, it'll be about the same on any other
> distribution, too.
> ...
> 
> On pretty much any distro, if you can break into the boot
> process
> and add a kernel arg, adding "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel
> parameters
> will bypass the usual initialization process (/sbin/init)
> and get
> you a root prompt.  At that point you can set the
> password for
> joeuser like so:
> 
> # /usr/bin/passwd joeuser
> 
> If you don't even remember what your username was, you can
> cat /etc/passwd
> 
> The above instructions may be too technical for you, and
> if
> so you'll probably want to hire some help or do a bit of
> googling around for how to break into the GRUB or SYSLINUX
> boot process (and even how to tell which one your system
> uses)
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:03:23 -0700
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Where is my Pwd?
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
> Message-ID: <20100327180323.GC21369 at linuxmafia.com>
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> 
> Quoting Tony Godshall (tony at of.net):
> 
> > On pretty much any distro, if you can break into the
> boot process
> > and add a kernel arg, adding "init=/bin/bash" to the
> kernel parameters
> > will bypass the usual initialization process
> (/sbin/init) and get
> > you a root prompt.  At that point you can set the
> password for
> > joeuser like so:
> > 
> > # /usr/bin/passwd joeuser
> > 
> > If you don't even remember what your username was, you
> can
> > cat /etc/passwd
> > 
> > The above instructions may be too technical for
> you[...]
> 
> They're also a recipe for frustration, because you forgot
> that they'll 
> result in the root partition being initially mounted
> read-only.  ;->
> 
> That's why I pointed Jose to the Ubuntu Web page on the
> subject, because
> it's comprehensive on such matters.
> 
> 
> 
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