Hehehe. Yep, this should be cool too :-) O the note: Knoppix 3.4 iso available, md5 checked, i ran it and it orks ok :-) Cheers Szemir
On May 4, 2004 10:54, Jeffrey Clement wrote:
Another less frightening way. Should work fine.
Boot Knoppix or some other linux on CD/Floppy.
Open a KTerminal.
Assume root: #sudo sh
Mount problem HDD #mkdir /hdd #mount /dev/hda1 /hdd
Chroot to your HDD #chroot /hdd
And reset the password #passwd root
Jeff
snipped a bunch
On May 4, 2004 05:17, Dave Bourassa wrote: > Curtis Sloan wrote: > > Why do I always forget single-user mode? This is the way to go. > > > > Thanks, Szemir. > > > > Curtis > > > > On Mon May 3 2004 18:51, bogi wrote: > >>Need to restart the system in single mode. With Lilo, it is a -s
switch,
> >>with grub you add single to the boot-params of the kernel. This
should
> >> drop you onto a root-shell, change the root password: passwd root > >>Type in what you want :-) Just remember it :-) , then CTRL+d to
exit the
> >>root-shell. The system should reboot then, restart it normally.
done.
> >>Cheers > >>Szemir > >> > >>On May 3, 2004 18:30, Dave Bourassa wrote: > >>>Okay I confess. I seem to have forgotten the root pw for my
wife's SuSE
> >>>9.0 box. I have the user id and pw, but I can't for the life of
me
> >>>remember the root pw. What's the easiest way to recover from
this
> >>>calamity? All I wanted to do was reset the clock for daylight
saving
> >>>time and it wants root access to do it. Of course I should have
it for
> >>>other stuff anyway, so any help will be appreciated. Thanx a
bunch.
> Thanx for the help, guys. I've tried the single user mode, though,
and
> it comes up and asks me for the pw before I can get into it. Is it > something new with SuSE 9.0 and grub, to increase security? I'll
check
> into the links provided after work today, unless you have any more
ideas
> on the single user mode trick. > > Thanx again.
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Well I was going to try the suggestions, but that would have meant missing the meeting on Wed., so I brought the laptop in to the meeting with me. Szemir then went to work on it and basically with the procedure above which uses a knoppix boot CD, he was able to accomplish the required goal of resetting the root pw.
Many thanx, Szemir, Jeff, Curtis, Dany and the group for the assistance.
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