Quoting Roi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paano ba malaman ulit ang old passwd? Nakalimutan kasi. Ang distro is > Redhat 8.0.:)
This has been discussed before, and so is very old beef. If anyone forgets his password, root or not, there is no way he can recover the password from the encrypted password in /etc/shadow (or in /etc/passwd). But root can change his password quite easily if he has physical access to the machine itself. The steps are: 1. Boot single user; at the LILO prompt type "linux single" where you need to replace the word "linux" by the label used when the boot image was installed. 2. The user is then given root access in single-user mode. He can then change the root password using the "passwd" command. For obvious reasons, you need to remember the new root password. 3. After changing the root password, you can now reboot the system and log in normally using the new password. P~Manalastas -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
