Next LUG meet: 9 Nov 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI -------------------------------------------- On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:59:12AM -0000, dipali panjabrao gaikwad wrote:
> &n= bsp; I M USER OF LINUX OS BUT AFTER VERY LONG TI= ME > RIGHT NOW I WANT TO OPEN MY ACCOUNT BUT I HAVE FORGETED MY PASSWOR= D > AND I AM NOT ABLE TO OPEN MY ACCOUNT PLEASE TELL ME WHAT TO DO? I assume the account is on a machine that you have access to reboot, and that you don't remember your root password as well. Also I assume its running Red Hat or some such distribution, which allows you to directly reboot into a root environment. If that is true, do the following - reboot the system, and the LILO prompt where you say "linux" (or some similar name) say "linux single" instead. This will boot the system in a "single user mode", with a root login without asking for the root password. Now you do can change the password for your account using "passwd". Sameer. -- Research Scholar, KReSIT, IIT Bombay http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/ -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
