saving knoppix root passowrd

[zed994]

after saving knoppix root password from the root shell useing passwd root, is it possible to save it??

Thanks

Alex

 

[pansophic]

I've never tried. I just use sudo from the knoppix account. It is set for root permissions with no password requirement.


pansophic

 

[zed994]

whats sudo, how do i configure and use it, thanks.. alex

 

[pansophic]

sudo allows you to run a single command as another user. By default, that other user is root.

sudo /sbin/ifconfig

will run ifconfig as root.

Do a man sudo for all of the options.


pansophic

 

[DanSoft]

A simple pair of shell scripts will do it; all you need to do is copy /etc/passwd to some removable media.

Script 1: Save

if [ -f /mnt/floppy/etc ]
  cp /etc/passwd /mnt/floppy /etc
else
  mkdir /mnt/floppy/etc/
  cp /etc/passwd /mnt/floppy/etc
fi

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Script 2: Load

cp /mnt/floppy/* /

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You can add more files to back up by modifying the first script to include them. /home is a good thing to back up (An alternative to persistent home, which I haven't gotten to work), as is /root, /ramdisk (Note: if you do that, make sure that you have massive storage space; that's the entire ramdisk!]

--Dan Hirsch
CEO of DanSoft