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hi !
recently installed linux on my friend's comp. Now somehow he has
forgotten the root password.
Is it possible to recover the lost password? The password file is
shadowed.
I feel that reinstalling linux is not a good and intelligent
solution.
Please help
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> On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
>> recently installed linux on my friend's comp. Now somehow he has
>> forgotten the root password. Is it possible to recover the lost
>> password? The password file is shadowed.
> Boot from a boot floppy or a rescue disk. Mount the root file system.
> Edit the shadow file. Delete the encrypted password. Restart the
> machine, and reset your password.
> Philip
Alternatively, you can boot in God mode / maintenance mode (i.e.,
Runlevel 1) and directly run the passwd command. It doesn't ask for the
old password, directly prompts for a new one.
Regards,
Shailesh.
Hello,
I had a machine with one CD drive. Then I got a CDwriter on trial
"Creative 4224".
When I connected the CD drive, xcdroast would not work. It would give me
message like "...........scsi emulation not turned on .....".
Kernel compilation failed.
So I loaded Linux on a spare partition and xcdroast could now see the
CDWriter.
I returned the CDwriter to my friend and then purchased Samsung 208
CDwriter.
This CDwriter was sensed by the kernel directly.
But xcdroast gave me the same message and the CDwriter was not seen on
xcdroast.
I could however see the CD's as /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom1
I then copied the useful files from the old partition and again loaded
Linux.
Now CDwriter is seen with one issue (cd reader is not seen inxcdroast
but that is a seperate issue).
Now, i believe that I have taken a longer route in installing the first
CDwriter and then another longer route in getting the next cdwriter
working.
Can someone give a better way of tackling this issue of chang of
cdwriters.
Anand
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hi nikhil,
well if u dont have a boot disk or resucue disk ...
type this on the lilo prompt --> linux single
& then u will get a root shell ... wherein u can change ur passwd by --> passwd
or by editing the /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow files & removing the passwd part
from the line for root.
cheers~
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
> recently installed linux on my friend's comp. Now somehow he has
> forgotten the root password. Is it possible to recover the lost
> password? The password file is shadowed.
Boot from a boot floppy or a rescue disk. Mount the root file system.
Edit the shadow file. Delete the encrypted password. Restart the
machine, and reset your password.
Philip
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if u dont have a boot disk or resucue disk ..
type this on ur lilo --> linux single
then u will get the root shell & then try to change the password by --> passwd
or else edit /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow & remove the passwd entries for root...
cheers~
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
> recently installed linux on my friend's comp. Now somehow he has
> forgotten the root password. Is it possible to recover the lost
> password? The password file is shadowed.
Boot from a boot floppy or a rescue disk. Mount the root file system.
Edit the shadow file. Delete the encrypted password. Restart the
machine, and reset your password.
Philip
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On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, ketan shah wrote:
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> what i have done i have dowloaded files there in window nt than i
> have copied into unix. i can connect there using hyperterminal
You use hyperterminal to dial in to a unix machine, correct? Then use
sz filename after logging in, and start file download from
hyperterminal.
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>From: ketan shah <coolketone(a)yahoo.com>
>>i have joined a course which allows me to connect to
>their institution from home.they have unix
>server.where i have stored exec. and pdf files which
>is of 7 mb.now i want to store this above files into
>my computer.how can i get this files in my computer.
If the ftp server is installed on the unix host then use ftp. If a mail
server is installed then mail it locally from one user to another on the
unix host and download it on your machine using fetchmail.
HTH
Noel.
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Linuxers,
What is an SRPM? I have a CD that says "Red Hat 6.2 Source" and
it contains all SRPMs. I just want to install the source code
to some of the programs I already have (mainly the basic util
commands like cd, mkdir, cat, grep, etc.). I don't have the
sources yet, so I want to know what is the best way to obtain
them. Am I supposed to install the SRPMs from CD-2 of RH?
Thanks.
Manish J.
