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The purpose of this project is to provide rescapp, developed by Adrian, on an Arch Linux live dvd. The purpose of rescapp is to provide a graphical way to recover access to systems that have become unable to boot.

The reason for this port is because rescatux, (rescatux is also a live dvd based on debian buster, and rescapp is the main program.) does not include the firmware needed to run wifi cards for network access. With this port you will also have the full range of capabilities needed to run radeon and other video cards in resolutions higher than the 640 x 480 provided by the "freedom" drivers.

The other main difference is that because Arch Linux does not officially support SELinux, I have not included the required files to make it work, as according to Arch Wiki, a number of packages need to be recompiled to enable SELinux support, and as I am not an expert in SELinux I would not be able to correctly create the base permissions files, and if they are not correctly created, then you can end up being totally locked out of the server/computer that you are trying to restore.

This is why this live dvd is not suitable for use with distros such as Fedora, which include SELinux as default. Your best bet for rescuing those systems is to use the official rescatux live dvd ( https://www.supergrubdisk.org/rescatux/ ) as this comes with full SELinux as default.

In order to be able to login to the desktop provided by this iso, you will need to use the following details:

Username: liveuser
Password: live

The user is already added to the sudoers list, so you can use sudo as normal.

In order to use rescapp, you will need to click on the launcher (small blue/white globe at the bottom left of the taskbar, and then select rescapp. ) If you wish to be able to unlock windows passwords, you will need to install the version of chntpw that is provided in the /home/liveuser/Downloads folder.

You will need to do this by launching one of the terminals available in the menu that the above mentioned launcher displays:

sudo pacman -U /home/liveuser/Downloads/chntpw-1.01-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

The version of chntpw that I have packaged for Arch Linux, differs from the package that gets installed as default. Adrian has taken the base code and has incorporated patches from debian to port it to using libgcrypt. He has also modified it to create the samunlock executable which helps to automate the unlocking of windows passwords. He tried to get his work incorporated into debian main stream, but he never heard back from them, so at this time he is hosting the changed files on github as an unofficial "fork" of chntpw.

As this is an initial beta release, your feedback on any issues would be greatly appreciated.

For issues that are rescapp related, please post on the rescapp issues page on github:

https://github.com/rescatux/rescapp

I am only the packager and the creator of this live dvd.

The original author of chntpw:

http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

Adrian's updated chntpw:

https://github.com/rescatux/chntpw