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  1. January 16th, 2004, 09:21 AM #1
    Lansing_Banda
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    Don't You Just Hate It

    Like the title implies; Don't you just hate it when you forget the root password to one of your systems? But the real kicker to this situation is that I can remember basically what it is...Damn you long passwords that keep people from breaking into my system.

    *deep exhale*

    nuff said.
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  2. January 16th, 2004, 11:34 PM #2
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    Happens to the best of us. I can top that though. I once lost my root password shortly after a fresh install.

    Talk about a bad morning.
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  3. January 17th, 2004, 06:32 AM #3
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    This is when you hope that you've left lilo fairly open and just boot init 1. Then it's just a matter of changing your password... However I've done this before and I'll agree with ya.. it definately sucks.
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  4. January 20th, 2004, 05:20 AM #4
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    The first day i got my laptop I began setting it up while a friend who was over when it came to my door was talking to me, i ended up putting in a different password than i had intended and after i dropped her off at home i had to completely reinstall everything to get into my system lol,
    Anyone know any backdoors for the xp login screen that would have prevented that work?
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  5. January 20th, 2004, 02:09 PM #5
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    Boot with knoppix - It will let you at the data

    I'm sure once you've done that you can find a tool to crack the password file

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  6. January 21st, 2004, 05:41 PM #6
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    No I just reinstalled it. I hadn't done too much so it didn't really matter. I thougt about trying to crack the password but it would have taken forever (the password was 12 chars long with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and a special character). So the world is a better place now that I can actually access my other system again.
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    nor look through the eyes of the dead...You shall listen to all
    sides and filter them for your self.
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