Hello Actually I am sending this again, I was using a different mail reader and it seems I didn't send to group, just some guy who quoted me here(without the full content and/or the context of the earlier note), so . . .
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Scott Ferguson <[email protected]> > -hv said: > >> I think that you need to get root password. > >> You maybe better to reinstall the whole thing > Scott Ferguson said: > *If* Tina had the root password she wouldn't need to rebuild everything. > Yes I agree. *If* Tina had the root password, she could probably fix > it quite easily. But now she doesn't have it. > So maybe best to reinstall everything. ... > knowing the root password. (If I knew how to find the root password, > I wouldn't tell it here.) > -hv Hello, I have been following this for a while, and i have to chime in... Noone needs to reinstall for lack of root. there are several easy alternatives, been using for years... - if you are booting using grub, and it is not password protected, you can edit your boot command line by hitting the option to edit, and just put init=/bin/bash at the end and it will throw you into a prompt right away, then you mount -a and you can just type passwd root and enter a new password. -if you can't get into grub, you can download a cd/dvd live image like knoppix or debian live, boot using that, mount the partition that your installed linux is on, chroot into it, and type passwd root. umount, reboot, and your done... -you can burn a grub boot floppy and boot from it even if your installed grub does not let you edit the bootargs without a password. ... depends on the distro installed what level of security naziism is set up, but you can always get in without the root password with a little research and attention to details. heres a link to do from back in the lilo days: http://linuxgazette.net/107/tomar.html ... heres one for RHEL http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/forgot-root-password-for- redhat-enterprise-linux-393172/ ... here is one of my favorite "rescue" floppies (which you can use from usb also for newer mach if u have no floppy drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomsrtbt ... here is a debian link: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/root.htm ... the list goes on, web searching on "forgot root linux" if you are not happy with above solutions. And, i guess you could reinstall and claim it's "easier" but the person who installed it originally probably spend some time to get everything tweaked like sound and such, flash, possibly installed software that you would have to redo hours/days of work to get back to what was already there. so an hour to install, possibly days to tweak/modify to your satisfaction, or a few minutes of reading and a few minutes of actual admin. Your choice. I have been watching this email trail progress for over a week already. Have Fun! Dave Moscrip, unix/linux sysadmin -- The dude abides . . . GNU - It's Freedom baby, Yeah! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120410174642.BASMV.183918.root@cdptpa-web21-z02
