I just started working on a Genesi Efika MX Cloud computer, and the previous user forgot the password (os is ubuntu).

How do I go about resetting the password?

Thank you-

Hi.

The easiest way to do this:

- Make an SD card with the installer image: http://www.powerdeveloper.org/platforms/efikamx/linux

- Boot from the SD card, but answer 'N' to the question if you want to erase everything and re-install

- This will drop you to a shell. Username and password are both 'oem', no quotes

- Become root: 'sudo su', password again 'oem'

- Mount the internal drive on e.g., /mnt as follows: - Edit /mnt/etc/shadow with e.g., nano: - Find the user name. It should look like this: - Remove the hex string, in the example above, remove the part here: - Shut down the system : 'shutdown -h now'

- Remove SD card and power on.

The user in question will have a blank password.


Johan.

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Director, Software Engineering

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