Re: help

[Cloudmaster <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

If you're running SuSE, you need the root passwd even if you boot to single
mode...

BTW, since I didn't see anyone else say it, the way *I'd* do it is to boot
with a seperate system-on-a-disk (tom's root-boot, picoboot,
rescue-disk-of-your-choice), mount your root partition, then edit the
/etc/shadow file, removing the screwy set of chars in the second
colon-delimited field.  That's root's encrypted passwd, and if you make that
field contain nothing (so you have root::stuff...) then root's password will
be nothing.  You can then reboot normally and lgin as root without being
prompted for a password - followed by typing "passwd" to set a new one.

--Danny

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Kara Pritchard wrote:
> If you're running RedHat..
> 
> Hit shift at the LILO: prompt. Type linux 1 (or linux single) and hit
> enter. This boots you into single user mode. Once booted, type passwd root
> and you'll be prompted for the new root password. Reboot, and viola.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, esorakin wrote:
> 
> > Hello sir/madam 
> >   I forget the root password of the LINUX. And I dont know how to recovery it.
> > Can you help me how to find it.
> > Thank you very much.
> > 
> > esorakin@lefke.edu.tr
> > 
> > 
> 
> - Kara
> 
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