Summary: Modern UNIX systems use shadow passwords, so /etc/passwd, being world-readable, stores everything except password hashes. That brings me to the second...
Summary: Hello all, i have a friend who forgot the user and password of his red hat partition (he also forgot the root password), hao can i recover the name of...
Summary: I installed redhat linux 7.0. It asked me for a password in the installation process and I gave my name (chamal) as the password. when i try to boot l...
Summary: I recently added a Red Hat 9 machine to my Windows 2000 (Active Directory) domain. Samba is working properly as I can connect to a Samba share from a ...
Summary: Hi, I took over this linux server and I have to make changes but I don't know the password and it boots straight to the login/password prompt and I ca...
Summary: Through what algorithm, Linux stores the passoword in shadow file. (/etc/shadow) This is some new technique found in some distribution of linux. In R...
Summary: Use bootable floppy of linux. att the boot: prompt write "linux single" (without quotes) then you will got # prompt use passwd root to modify password...
Summary: Hi again Yep seem to have had this discussion before. Yes no password have been set in the windows machine. An annoying feature of windows, that eve...
Summary: Ok, I am having one odd problem with my main linux hard drive. Everything went down hill while in Linux one day, I came back to my PC to see my video...
Summary: Hi, i want to backup my linux-server. I have a 35GB SCSI-Raid5 installed on /dev/sda with 2 partitions on it (sda1 and sda5)and a 100GB SLR-tabe insta...
Summary: I want to create a password protection area under web server certain folder, I am using .htaccess to have authorized users to access to that folder, i...
Summary: Another useful CD to have would be knoppix (or another live CD) with which you can boot a computer and retrieve any required data. Something like Tom'...
Summary: DLX Linux on a floppy Manufacturer : Erich Boehm Distribution : DLX for Intel Computers FTP Server : ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/opsys/linux/DLX ...
Summary: I added a new user account using the same user name and password as I use it for the NT network (afaik it shouldn't matter if it is different). I adde...
Summary: I wan't to recover my RH8.0 linux pwd. From a buddy i came to know the command saying to issue on boot up linux single. but it did not do any thing $ ...
Summary: I'm assuming Netware is advanced enough to NOT store passwords. I would think it would store hashes, which would most likely be hashed with a differen...
Summary: Hello there, I'd like to carry out a feature for the users of my Red Hat 7.3 server that they could change their linux password and see disk space quo...
Summary: Congratulations, symon is a very good program and it certainly can initiate booting of LINUX through a correctly configured LILO! The problem could c...
Summary: It's a little more complicated than just editing the Samba file smb.conf. You must remember to make sure that the user account that you are using to l...
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