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[Mitch Mahan]

How secure is your windows box when you can recover a password like this?

 

Insert 'NT Password Offline Recover Boot CD' (linux)

 

Reboot

 

Press Enter a lot of times

 

Type in * to blank the Administrator password

 

Reboot

 

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[mailto:ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of phillip tribble
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:18 PM
To: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team
Subject: [CoLoCo] (no subject)

 

How secure is linux when you can recover a password like this?

If you forgot you password for your ubuntu system you can recover using the
following steps 

Turn your
<http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-recover-password-under-ubuntu.html>
computer on.

Press ESC at the grub prompt.

Press e for edit.

Highlight the line that begins kernel ..., press e

Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash

press enter, then press b to boot your system.

Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell.

Type in passwd username

Set your password.

Type in reboot 

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