w/o linux single

[Michael L. Ibraheem]

sometimes out of security reasons i had to change the allowable run levels to disallow that linux single   the only solution in that case is sometimes to boot of disc but you need to  have background knowledge about the systems paritioning or else have fun guess and check On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:24:33AM -0700, Li Bing wrote: > Dear All, > > My RedHat root password is lost. I have resolved the same problem on > Solaris. Can I do that on Linux? Could you give me ideas? > At the lilo prompt, you should be able to boot on single mode doing: linux single or linux 1 (initlevel 1) Then, the system boots up, no password asked. Then: passwd root ...and you should be able to change the passwd. Laurent. -- Laurent CREPET - Production Engineer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quadratec - http://www.quadratec-software.com -- perl -e 'print map { s/Veritas/Quadratec/g; $_ . "\n" } @ARGV' $business