Yup I'll recommend this too... =) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Holgado, Pedro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: RE: [plug] recover root passwd
> If you are using GRUB as your boot loader, type "single" at the end of the kernel line and press [b] to boot the system, and then you can change the password by using passwd command. > > thanks > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pablo Manalastas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:19 PM > To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List > Subject: Re: [plug] recover root passwd > > > 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 > -- > 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 > > -- 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
