not a bad idea and will have to remember that one, thanks!<br><br>so did some more research, and came across a sister project of coyote called Brazil FW. same source code, just a branch thereof. installed that and is working great! not sure why but older versions of the coyote firewall ask you to specify the root's password while version 3.0 does not. Brazil does so that will work great!<br>
<br>thank you much<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Joshua Burns <<a href="mailto:jdburnz@gmail.com">jdburnz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> unfortunately not, it's a pretty straight boot...<br>
<br>
</div>Then my next approach would be to boot of a live CD, change the root<br>
password on the live CD, and copy the encrypted password from the<br>
liveCD's /etc/shadow to the machine's /etc/shadow and /etc/shadow- .<br>
I've done this a few times, though it might not work if the two<br>
distros use a different salt for the password hash. (Though, honestly,<br>
I've never encountered that barrier.)<br>
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