On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Karnati Thomasaiah wrote: > Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 04:29:25 -0000 > From: Karnati Thomasaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [twincling] How to access administrative rights if one forgets root > password in Fedora core5 > > Dear friends > > I have a system running on fedora core5. I have installed 2 multi port > pci cards with great difficulty after working on it for two months. We > have added nearly 6 text terminals to this system. There are nearly 10 > users. We have user IDs and passwords for these users. We can log on > with these users. > > Now i forgot administrative user ID and password. > Can any one help me how to access administrative rights for creating > users or for other administrative works. I can not afford to reload > fedora core5 again because I will loose all the applications I added. > And also now I forgot how to add multiport pci cards. > > Please help me > > Thomas >
Hi Thomas: Just boot the machine, you will see the boot prompt select the fedora option and please press the key 'e' (edit) on the keyboard. You will see a line that looks like this. kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x317 Select this line and press 'c' (ie. command line) Now you will see the same line as grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x317 Goto the end of the line (ie. CTRL+e) and type the word 'single' After that press ENTER key and you will be back in the fedora option. Press 'b' to boot the system. Now your system will boot till level 1 and you will see a prompt shell like this '#'. Type 'passwd' and enter the new password directly. After you have changed the password, you can a. /sbin/telinit 3 or b. /sbin/reboot Hope this helps. thanks Saifi.
