Admin password reset

[CAN - McGuire, Dan]

You are all missing the point

Someone needs a good smack upside the head!
Tell the person who is having a hissy fit that you will be sending the machine out for service by some godless company that will charge megabucks for the service and that your lawyers will make sure that the bill goes to them.

-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
Of Derick Centeno
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:07 PM
To: Discussion List for New Yellow Dog Linux Users
Subject: Re: Admin password reset


Hi John:

Here's the easy way:
Get the install first CD of the YDL install set.  Enter that into the 
laptop in question, and also have an ethernet cable connected between 
the laptop and any device you wish to copy files to.  Boot the laptop 
so that it boots from the CD, press the C key.  When you reach the 
Linux boot prompt:

boot:

type in, install rescue.  Follow instructions from there; you'll have 
all the access you please and won't need any password.

boot: install rescue

Copy what you wish and so on.   I know this works as I tried this out 
on my own laptop.

Best of luck.... Derick.

On May 19, 2006, at 9:31 AM, John Golitsis wrote:

> Sorry folks, I'm sure this question has been asked and answered a 
> million times, so if someone can simply point me in the right 
> direction, it would be much appreciated.
>
> We have a Mac notebook computer that a previous employee used to use 
> and he's refusing to give us the admin password to Yellow Dog.  Is 
> there a way to reset this?  There is info we need on this machine, so 
> we can't simply reformat and re-install.
>
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