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The_Arch
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 Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:17 am Post subject: gentoo livecd user password |
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Hi,
I've locked my screen which was booted with the Gentoo LiveCD and don't know the gentoo user password.
I can't unlock my screen now.
Was just wondering what the default password is for this user.
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bunder
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:24 am Post subject: Re: gentoo livecd user password |
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| The_Arch wrote: | Hi,
I've locked my screen which was booted with the Gentoo LiveCD and don't know the gentoo user password.
I can't unlock my screen now.
Was just wondering what the default password is for this user.
TIA |
it's auto-generated and scrambled every time on boot. you'll never be able to retrieve it.
sorry 
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The_Arch
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:40 am Post subject: |
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Oh! boy,
I was running the install in the background. Now I'll have to reinstall again.  |
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bunder
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| The_Arch wrote: | Oh! boy,
I was running the install in the background. Now I'll have to reinstall again. |
nope!
you do need to reboot though. you can mount, chroot, env-update/source, then resume from where you left off.
cheers
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belrpr
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| You can change the password by using su/sudo command to set a new password. |
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SaFrOuT
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: gentoo livecd user password |
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| The_Arch wrote: | Hi,
I've locked my screen which was booted with the Gentoo LiveCD and don't know the gentoo user password.
I can't unlock my screen now.
Was just wondering what the default password is for this user.
TIA |
did the same thing today
hope that reseting my system won't damage my installation
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| belrpr wrote: | | You can change the password by using su/sudo command to set a new password. |
that is, first press <Ctl><Alt><F1> to switch to tty1
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EzInKy
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: Re: gentoo livecd user password |
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| bunder wrote: |
it's auto-generated and scrambled every time on boot. you'll never be able to retrieve it.
sorry |
I guess I'll be the one to ask the stupid question...why? LiveCDs can be very handy as rescue disks and it seems kind of silly to make users jump through silly hoops like Ubuntu.
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SaFrOuT
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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well in my case i pressed ctrl+alt+backspace which crashed X server
i restart it again and it auto logged in gentoo user and i just needed to rechroot and do emerge --resume
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