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

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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).

By all means do a full OS Restore on that thing. Who knows what's been done
to that thing if you bought it from someone else. Start fresh.

hth,
j
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