Mr O wrote:Aside from blackhat reasons what are some situations that require this I haven't forgotten my password yet but I'm sure that has happened. Once when very new to linux I had someone work on my box and I didn't remember them telling me what the password was . How many can the experienced admins list?
What's the quickest way to root a RedHat box? Boot off a rescue
CD or bootable distro and edit /etc/passwd? What do I change? Do
I change the values associated with root's password or can I
just simply reset the root and/or user passwords?
knoppix: knoppix textmode
root# mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/hdaX root# chroot /mnt/hdaX /usr/bin/passwd root Changing password for user root New password: XXXXXXXXXXXX Retype new password: XXXXXXXXXXXX root# umount /mnt/hdaX
Replace the X's with the right characters for your configuration.
John
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