Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Can not login USRP E100

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 10/31/2011 01:36 PM, Philip Balister wrote:
> By usb, you mean the usb console?
>
> You can put the sd card in an sd card reader attached to another linux
> computer and edit the file /etc/passwd to remove the password. That
> should let you login in again. It might be in the shadow password file also.
>
> Yes, it looks like the actual password is in /etc/shadow. Edit this file
> to remove the password hash.
>
> Also, this question is better suited to the usrp-users list, so I copied
> that list also.
>
> Philip
If the filesystem is trashed, mounting it on another machine may not 
help.  If it's a password issue, then how did the
  password get changed?  Someone else logged into it?  Some malware 
logged into it?  These are questions the
  security-geek-instance of myself would be asking.

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Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
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