Somehow my account on Red Hat expired, and it instructs me to contact my system administrator. But I really don't know/remember the administrator username/password. Is there a way in which I can create another account with rescue mode? And find out administrator account info.
This should help. It's from the Red Hat Linux 9 Getting Started Guide, chapter 16. Once you've changed the root password, reboot and then reset your account.
BFD
******************************************* 16.8. Forgotten Password*
/Help! I forgot my root password. How do I log in now?/
You can log in using single-user mode and create a new root password.
To enter single-user mode, reboot your computer. If you use the default boot loader, *GRUB*, you can enter single user mode by performing the following:
1.
At the boot loader menu, type [e] to enter into editing mode.
2.
You will be presented with a boot entry listing. Look for the line
that looks similar to the following:kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-0.4 ro root=/dev/hda2
Press the arrow key until this line is highlighted and press [e].
3.
Press the Spacebar once to add a blank space, then add the word
*single* to tell GRUB to boot into single-user Linux mode. Press
[Enter] to make the editing change take effect.4.
You will be brought back to the edit mode screen. From here, press
[b] and GRUB will boot single-user Linux mode. After it finishes
loading, you will be presented with a shell prompt similar to the
following:sh-2.05#
5.
You can now change the root password by typing
bash# *passwd root*
You will be asked to re-type the password for verification. Once
you are finished, the password will be changed. You can then
reboot by typing reboot at the prompt; then you can log in to root
as you normally would.
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