There are a number of different ways to do root password recovery on a Linux system. Since the proventia's run RedHat, use the procedure below......
You must be physically in front of the system. Reboot the computer(usually ctrl-alt-delete will do it safely) and after POST, the system will come to a boot loader screen. ISS Proventia use grub as the boot loader, so you may see a menu in which to select what kernel you want to boot. Select the kernel to boot and then hit 'e'. This will take you into a mini-editor where you can change the line that's used to boot the system. What we want to do is to pass an additional argument to the kernel, telling it what runlevel we want to boot into. This will override the default runlevel setting in /etc/inittab. So after hitting 'e', we cursor down to the line that starts with 'kernel' and cursor all the way to the end of the line. Put a space after any existing kernel arguments and type the number '1' (without the single quotes). Hit enter here to accept the change and you're back at the grub boot screen. Then hit 'b' to boot to this line. The system will boot into runlevel 1 (single user mode) and you will be dropped to a root prompt without being prompted for the password. From here you can type 'passwd' to change the root password. When you're done, type 'exit' and the system will boot to the default runlevel. For more help, see http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1- rescuemode-booting-single.html Hope that helps.... Shabbir Bashir GSEC, GCIA CSX Transportation -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ocol, Carlito Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ISSForum] Admin Password We have purchased Proventia A604 from a vendor. No one remembers the installed password on the device. I'm able to console in to the machine but no way of getting passed the login. The bootloader points to a: "kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.7.x ro root=/dev/hda5". I would like to be able to boot into a single user mode so I can set the password. Thanks in advance for your help. _______________________________________________ ISSForum mailing list [email protected] TO UNSUBSCRIBE OR CHANGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION, go to https://atla-mm1.iss.net/mailman/listinfo/issforum To contact the ISSForum Moderator, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The ISSForum mailing list is hosted and managed by Internet Security Systems, 6303 Barfield Road, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30328. _______________________________________________ ISSForum mailing list [email protected] TO UNSUBSCRIBE OR CHANGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION, go to https://atla-mm1.iss.net/mailman/listinfo/issforum To contact the ISSForum Moderator, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The ISSForum mailing list is hosted and managed by Internet Security Systems, 6303 Barfield Road, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30328.
