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LostInEmulation
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12 Feb 2008, 10:23 am

Hi,

I thought that I formatted a partition of my old PC which has Debian/GNU/HURD on it, but as I saw today, it still exists and even boots again. However, I have no clue what I used as user- and what as administrator password... Do I have to reinstall or is there an easier solution?

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12 Feb 2008, 10:35 am

Wow, they got HURD working?

Can you mount the filesystem in another operating system and change /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow? Blank out root's password.



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12 Feb 2008, 10:44 am

That should work, even though I won't be able to do it before next week (earlier if I find anything bootable). Yeah, the HURD exists and is in version 0.2 or 0.3 by now... Expect 1.0 next year :wink: Here's Debian/GNU/HURD