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james kilty wrote: > Dear all > > My wife has outwitted herself in trying to keep our daughter out of her > work computer. She changed the password today, used it once and cannot > remember it to get it going again tonight. Is there any way to deal with > this problem? I have Knoppix and other Live CD's if this would help. > > Any chance of getting her to work tomorrow? It is somewhat urgent as you > might imagine - she is a home worker and needs to start early. > As a last resort, we can pull out the files she wants using a Live CD > and putting them on to her laptop, but this is not ideal. > i might be wrong here but if you remove the cmos battery for 1minute then replace it,i think it goes back to default setting and gets rid of passwords,but like i said i could be wrong. alex the noob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html