can't log on - forgot password (oops)

Bruce Ferrell bferrell at baywinds.org
Sat Aug 18 02:42:20 UTC 2007


If you can get it to boot the VM from media, try the bootdisk you'll
find below

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Jimmy Wu wrote:
> On 8/17/07, *Mario Vukelic* <mario.vukelic at dantian.org
> <mailto:mario.vukelic at dantian.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 18:42 -0400, Jimmy Wu wrote:
>     > Is there anyway I can recover/reset the password and use this VM
>     > without reinstalling it?
> 
>     Just boot the vm into "Recovery Mode" from the grub boot menu, run the
>     "passwd" command, reboot with "shutdown -r now"
> 
> much thanks - I can log in now
> --
> Jimmy
> 




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