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- Resetting your forgotten password on your dreambox
- Follow these steps if you have forgot your password:
- 1) Install and run TuxBox Commander plugin
- 2) Change directory to edit /var/etc/passwd
- 3) Remove the encrypted password.
- –> ATTENTION !!!! THE passdw file only !!! NOT the passdw-
- 3.1) In the file /etc/passwd is the line:
- root:b:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh or something as !!!
- root:dkjhfhlksfdiueyr736592cigsdjgfj:0:0:root:/roo t:/bin/sh
- 3.2) the password field is the b or the encripted string dkjhfhlksfdiueyr736592cigsdjgfj
- 3.3) Delete the b or the string .
- The line now is:
- root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh
- (for the DM500, if you are using an other DM keep the
- root as it is, you must delete ONLY the string)
- 4) Save the file and exit
- 5) Telnet to your DB with root user without password
- 6) Create a new root password with the command : ” passwd ”
- If you want put the original file with user:root and pas.:dreambox in one directory in your’s DM and if you forget again the pas. then just copy the file passw in the original location
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