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dexdex

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,19:53

OK, I have a USB-ZIP Pendrive installation and how do I change the root password there? Ok I can set with sudo passwd but only for the current session after rebooting the password is lost.

mikshaw

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,20:37

after setting the password, add "etc/shadow" to .filetool.lst.
This works only if you use the backup/restore feature.

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dexdex
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Posted: Oct. 27 2005,09:17

thx for the answer, but your hint does not work. Perhaps I should give a little bit more information about my dsl installation. I use a 128 MB USB Stick with USB-ZIP installation (the USB-HDD does not work) So the stick will split in sda1 and sda2 during the USB-ZIP installation. my backup medium is sda2 and the backup is running correctly because I use a static IP with the bootlocal.sh method. And I add etc/shadow to the filetool.lst

PS: One more info - I did not choose the toram installion option only vga`normal and ssh

Perhaps you will find a solution, would be very nice, because I need the ssh to connect remotly to the dsl system.

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Posted: Oct. 27 2005,10:05

I found a solution. Instead of add the etc/shadow simple add /etc/passwd to the filetool.lst. But the question that comes with this solution, if there could a security problem?

PS: /etc/shadow does not work and at the moment I can live with the /etc/passwd solution ;-)

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Posted: Oct. 27 2005,15:02

That's odd....i backup my passwords using only /etc/shadow. I don't use the backup/restore feature, though, and instead have the file inside a tar.gz mydsl extension. That's most likely the difference. The restore is probably being run by dsl, where the extensions are installed by root. If someone can verify this before I check it out myself, please let me know and i'll edit my "tips" post.

What security issues are you concerned about? As long as no one else has access to your backup you should be fine, but i'm far from expert on security matters.

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