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Re: [Xen-users] can the root password be recovered from a DomU

To: Kevin McKeon <kevin.w.mckeon@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] can the root password be recovered from a DomU
From: Alain Barthe <ab266061@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:48:01 +0200
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Try to use this tool :
http://www.albar.fr/downloads/vbdmount.py

2009/5/22 Kevin McKeon <kevin.w.mckeon@xxxxxxxxx>
Just curious if anyone knows this. If you loose the root password on a Linux box, you can just boot from CDRom, mount the root partition and edit /etc/shadow.
Is it possible to do something similar with a DomU.

I tried:
mount -o loop mydisk.img /mnt
but I got an error saying something like "you must specify a filesystem type"
mount -o loop -t ext3 mydisk.img /mnt does NOT work either (I've also tried moving the '-t ext3' part but no go)



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