Master Password Reset for Vicibox Redux

[williamconley]

Anyone interested in a SIMPLE master password reset (in case of emergencies?) which requires ONLY physical access to the server with keyboard and mouse ... and a couple minutes? (no cd, just a few keystrokes ...).

Or would posting this be a bad thing? LOL

[mflorell]

Which password are you referring to exactly?

[williamconley]

Oh, sorry, the root user password, since that can be used to regain access to the system and thereby ANY other password.

[mflorell]

I am assuming that whatever method this is is already public knowledge and not a zero-day exploit, in which case I cannot see the harm in posting it.

[williamconley]

Got it from the web myself for a client who locked himself out, but there was NO CD Drive LOL

[Kumba]

That's why you install Linux on a USB key for use as a rescue disk. Just google "Live USB" and you should get all kinds of returns. Same theory as a Live CD, but on a USB key instead. And in my opinion, 10-times more handy and useful!

I would create an extra small partition and format it as fat32, so you can also use the key as a go-between from linux to windows, etc.

[williamconley]

Yep. But try to transmit the "usb key" to a client in (state omitted) who's completely panicked because he's lost his master password and thinks an ex-manager is going to do something BAD.

A few keystrokes, no cd, no usb, nothing to install, worked very nicely on your vicibox rescue boot (actually turned it into a rescue boot!!!).