At 11:42 PM 7/5/2001 +0300, Kursad Kayaturk wrote:
>Hi guys,
> I have lost root password of one of the machines. And the machine is
>complicated a dual cpu compaq because of that I do not want remove the hard
>idsk to crack the root password. Is there a way to crack the root password
>from the local console at the boot time. I remember from the old times that
>we were using some kind of floppy disk. Thank you.
You can use the rescue disk to get booted, then you can mount your root
partition on somewhere like /mnt/temp.
At that point you can go in and manually edit /etc/shadow, and remove the
root password.
Restart the machine, log in as root with no password, run passwd :) and
you're back in business!
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Craig Sprout
Network Administrator
Crown Parts and Machine, Inc.
http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com
