RE: [cobalt-users] Qube3: recover root password

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >
>> 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).
>>
>Since you have a used machine, restore the it, who knows what kind of trash
>is on the machine.


it was supposedly restored already, although it never came with a restore disk - I'm looking for a restore disk ISO file somewhere - got a link?

tia

Greg Hewitt-Long

ps - if anyone has a link to a step-by-step guide to restore from CD, I'd appreciate the link
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