Skatman Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Hi all, As per title. I've been an idiot. I use Lastpass and I think I got rid of the password for the 'root' whilst messing around with another Web page that used 'root' as the default username. 🤦♂️ I've read the 'lost password guide' and it tells me to shutdown the server, remove the flash, delete some files, and all will be sorted. Not an issue. However, how am I supposed to shut the server down without access? I know in other Linux Distros you can tab to a command line at login. But as this is via Web page, that won't work. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment
Skatman Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 Scratch that. I've been even more of an idiot. I found the account that has been overwritten and Lastpass, being the sexy bit of software that it is, has history of previous passwords. Love you Lastpass. 😍 1 Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 9 hours ago, Skatman said: However, how am I supposed to shut the server down without access? I know in other Linux Distros you can tab to a command line at login. But as this is via Web page, that won't work. And I would suppose that a short push on the power button of your server should launch a clean shutdown of a computer. I would depend on how the BIOS is setup probably. Quote Link to comment
Skatman Posted November 19, 2020 Author Share Posted November 19, 2020 1 hour ago, ChatNoir said: And I would suppose that a short push on the power button of your server should launch a clean shutdown of a computer. I would depend on how the BIOS is setup probably. I wasn't sure about if this would work. I couldn't remember any options in the UEFI for it and I usually configure it in Windows. When I've had Linux distros in the past, pressing the power button was a kill-switch effectively and I *really* didn't want to do that as it had taken me 2 days to transfer the 20TB of data that I've got. Quote Link to comment
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