On 3/14/06, James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One way of doing it is to use a live CD (e.g. Knoppix) and mounting the > Fedora drives, then resetting the root password. I understand that the > Fedora recovery CD can do this as well. Alternatively, you could just > temporarily install the hard drive in another PC. Do we need a root user and password to mount to Fedora's hard drive ? > > Another way is to play with the kernel command line in grub, asking the > kernel to use a shell instead of init. > > Obviously, this all needs physical access. > > > And if so... I want it to be completely unrecoverable.. How can I do that ? > > You would have to have an encrypted root filesystem. Googling suggests > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7743 might be one place to start. > > Please note that you will be leaving standard Fedora behind. You will > have to put something like exclude=initscripts in your /etc/yum.conf, > and you will not be able to (easily) upgrade this box from one Fedora > version to another: you will have to repeat the whole process. > > Hope this helps, > > James. > > -- > E-mail address: james | Beneath this stone lies Murphy, > @westexe.demon.co.uk | They buried him today, > | He lived the life of Riley, > | While Riley was away. > Regards, Feris PT. Putera Handal Indotama JL. KH. Moh. Mansyur No. 11 Blok B.8-12 Telp. +62-21-631 6688 (Hunting) Fax. +62-21-6330211 Jakarta (10140) - INDONESIA
