[plug] [Fwd: (Fwd) Forgotten Password]

[Leon Brooks]

navarre at omen.com.au wrote:
> 
> Hello Leon
> 
> I tried sending this to the list but either the list server is not working
> or it rejected my message because I sent it fom my work rather
> that home.
> 
> I have a Debian system not used for several months that I have
> forgotten the root password and I would like to find it.
> 
> The system boots from floppy, Lilo being overwritten during a
> primary HDD upgrade, Linux is on HDB. I have one valid user login,
> and it works, so I can run programs/ scripts and have telnet and a
> second linux box on the network (all password are known on this
> box, also Debian). I have tried , about fours hours worth, to
> remember/ second guess the password I used. I have an idea that
> it is six to eight alphanumeric with at least one special character.
> 
> I would consider a brute force test every combination method if
> some one has one.