non encrypted volume On 12 July 2015 at 21:36, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work >> on using a F21 Live CD please ? > > The question is vague, can you be more specific? Is this drive > encrypted and you're talking about the encryption passphrase? Or > you're talking about the login passphrase? If the former, there is no > way to break that encryption. If the latter, then just mount it > normally and copy off what you want to keep - you don't even need to > do this with live media, any Fedora installation can do this and > bypass the user login. You might have to use sudo cp to copy the > contents of files for which your new user doesn't have permissions > for; and then fix that with: > > sudo chown -R chris:chris /path/to/files/ > > where chris is whatever the login+owner name is on your current system. > > -- > Chris Murphy > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
