9 Sep
2005
9 Sep
'05
4:49 p.m.
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 10:22 +0530, Rohit Baisakhiya wrote:
I forget the root password.How to recover the root password?
- Boot off of a rescue CD
- mount the / partition to /mnt
- edit /mnt/etc/shadow
- zap the password field (see man 5 shadow)
- Upon reboot: login and change the password
Instead boot in single user mode and change the password to what ever you want.
It is distro dependent -
SuSE 9.3 - need root password to boot into runlevel 1 FC 4 - !need root password to boot into runlevel 1 (I guess the same for derivatives of Fedora/Redhat)
Debian - ??
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Arun Khan
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