How to trick the lost root password on Slackware !

October 12, 2008 at 10:52 am (Computer and Technologies)
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Okay ^^ slackers

i just want to share this and i hope this wouldn’t & can’t be used for criminality or something !! :p

the case is when you lost your root password or someone change it silently. How to recover it ?

first, prepare the live CD for your slackware series , ex : slackware 12.1 livecd.

1. Power on ur computer

2. boot the LiveCD.

3. just enter when ask about keymap

4. Login as ROOT

5. know u are the root ! Mount ur root partition to a directory (lets’s make it)

6. If you forgot what partition is your root, type fdisk -l to check ur partition status. Lets agree that we have /dev/sda2 as the root in this case.

7. mkdir test

8. mount /dev/sda2/test

9. chroot test

10. vi /etc/shadow

11. u will see the root :<encryption number>:ID:0:::::

12. delete JUST the encryption number and replace it with blank or *

13. :wq

14. umount test

15. reboot

16. take the LiveCD from ur DVD/CD player

17. enter the slackware : login as root with blank password

18. change your password with passwd

19. finish ^^

alternative way after steps number 10 : if u are forgot or accidentaly delete ur ID and the number after it. We can trick this as long as you have two profiles.

For example, u have root and ‘antonie’ user. u remember the antonie password and u lost your root password. Just write to your root : …. : … :…. :::: exactly the same as the antonie has one. !!

then follow the 13-19 steps.. :)

that’s the simple way of mine to change the root password :)

Hope this can help ur problem….^^

Love and Hugs,

Bo

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Install Intel 3945 wifi driver on Slackware

October 12, 2008 at 10:27 am (Computer and Technologies)
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So, after a long day, i finally found my own way to trick this problem on my Operating System.

Slackware is one of the most popular text-based Linux Operating System. But Sometimes, when hardware technologies are steps to the next level, the driver compatibiliy may not be implemented yet in the current OS.

So, I look in the internet, got reference, and also asking with my lecturer, willysr (http://willysr.blogspot.com/) to solve this problem, finally i got the right one for my problem. To be notes : my notebook (Acer GEMSTONE series) has intel 3945 wifi devices and i think this should be work with 4965 too. Also, i haven’t been compile the Iast kernel yet. (2.6.27)

hope this way can help you solve some problems with yours too, although i know before my write there are so many discussion in this too..but in same cases, maybe this / that one is the really one that can help you with own :)

first thing is u should download this file :

http://rapidshare.com/files/153151181/wifi_3945_slackware.rar

extract it !! there are 3 files that added to your computer.

1. compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2

2. compat-wireless-old.tar.bz2

3. compat-wireless-old-2008-10-11.tar.bz2

if u are running kernel >2.6.23 i suggest u to use the second choise (compat-wireless-old.tar.bz) –>it works with mine too.

steps after downloading :

(the directory is up to you)

1. put the compat-wireless-old.tar.bz2 file in /etc folder

2. cd /etc

3. extract it from terminal using tar xjvf compat-wireless-old.tar.bz2

4. enter the directory created from the extraction , with : cd compat-wireless-old-2.6 (CMIIW)

5. wirte this command : make (wait about 1 minutes – depends on the RAM)

6. make install (wait about 1 minutes – depends on the RAM)

7. make unload

8. make load

after this steps u will see that the driver is installed in ur system now, if u run the iwconfig wlan0 or iwlist wlan0 scanning it should be work. but in my case, the network is not yet connected to my notebook. what’s wrong ?? after i search through the internet, i realize that there is something that must be done :

9. write iwconfig wlan0 essid “YourWirelessName” key restricted “theKeyNumber” ( the underline part isn’t present if the wireless conn is open access)

10. ifconfig wlan0 up –> this part should be done.

11. dhcpcd wlan0

12. now check with iwconfig wlan0 or ifconfig wlan0, we have IP address now.

13. try to connect using your browser… waw, it;s works !! ^^

hope this tutorial can help you all guys with the same problem as mine.

thanx ^^

hugs,

Bo

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