[H-GEN] Password

[Tony Bilbrough]

[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
[ Unix-related topics. Posts from non-subscribed addresses will vanish. ]

G'day All,
I know that no one else has ever done this before
-[just like backing up vital data, I suppose!]
But...........
I have forgotten my root/admin password for the Router/Server.

I did write it down - and put it in a Secret Squirrel place, and all that.
The trouble is I can't find the damm place.

The o/s is E Smith 4.1.
It is all still running fine, no probs, but the advice we were given one Humbug
[Mark Suter?] was to change the p/w regularly - and so, 3 months down the track,
low and behold, etc. - Unable to be regular! Sigh.

So the question is.
Is there any way I can delete the root p/w,
and put in something simple - like my Humbug boxen password - that I can just
remember.

Or will I have to completely reload E Smith to get to the p/w bit??
[that destroys all data on the hdd, you know]

As I said, nothing is broken, everything works, I just cannot access the serious
bit of the server.
cheers Tony
-- 
Baggins -- ô¿ô  - (^!^)
I'm not a good example,
.......................just a terrifying warning.
int +61+7  local 3379 1048


--
* This is list (humbug) general handled by majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au .
* Postings to this list are only accepted from subscribed addresses of
* lists 'general' or 'general-post'.  See http://www.humbug.org.au/