updated os card, now no access, no root or first user pw.
Gene Heskett
gheskett at shentel.net
Tue Oct 26 23:08:14 UTC 2021
Greetings all;
I have a red pitaya, and I just, after about 18 months, overwrote its
boot and operating u-sd with about a 4 version newer os and app image.
Used dd of course.
But the image had no root account pw, and no first user at all. And it
runs headless. Running a u-boot, armhf version of ubuntu 16-04 even
after the update.
So I need to restore enough of the passwd and logins, to at least get a
first user and valid passwd reset into it?
This thing has no video output, or keyboard input in it and no shell
access that I can find from its web browser interface that only works
for the mac address of its ethernet port. So this has to be done by
putting the card in a reader on some other machine and editing the
correct files.
How do I preceed given those restrictions?
Thank you.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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