Re: [cobalt-users] Qube3: recover root password - repost, original never appeared

["Richard Donahue" <Richard.Donahue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Greg Hewitt-Long" <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 6:43 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Qube3: recover root password - repost, original
never appeared


> If this appears twice all of a sudden, my apologies - it's 2 hours and
nothing so far, so I'm reposting:
>
>
> I've just fired up my used Qube3, which we purchased on Ebay, and hit the
reset to clear the previous admin password, but it appears this doesn't
clear the root password... if it does, then it gets reset to something
different to the admin password.
>
> Can anyone advise what it gets reset to (if anything); alternatively, can
is the a procedure to regaining a lost root password on a Qube3.
>
> For the record, I have telnet working for admin, but no root password (and
the admin password doesn't work for su - root).
>
> tia
>
> Greg Hewitt-Long
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Greg,

If you haven't already, I do a complete restore.

When you change the admin password in the UI it changes the root password
also. They are one in the same.

Rich
EBS


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