Rony Bill wrote: > Arun K. Khan wrote: >> On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 10:22 +0530, Rohit Baisakhiya wrote: >> >>>> I forget the root password.How to recover the root password? >>>> >>>> 1. Boot off of a rescue CD >>>> 2. mount the / partition to /mnt >>>> 3. edit /mnt/etc/shadow >>>> 4. zap the password field (see man 5 shadow) >>>> 5. Upon reboot: login and change the password >>> >>> >>> Instead boot in single user mode and change the password to what ever >>> you want. >> >> >> It is distro dependent - >> >> SuSE 9.3 - need root password to boot into runlevel 1 >> FC 4 - !need root password to boot into runlevel 1 (I guess the same >> for derivatives of Fedora/Redhat) >> > > For distros that need root passwd for runlevel 1, the CD is required. > However if the root operator has forgotten his existing password, it > will be necessary in *both* bootup cases to delete the password entry > either in /etc/shadow as mentioned by Arun or delete the second field > entry 'x' in the /etc/passwd on the line corresponding to the root user. > Then set a new password.
A CD is not all required, just append the parameter init=/bin/bash to the kernel line in grub.conf, it works in suse as well. mifthas haris -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
