Re: root pswd? (HOWTO: for GRUB and LILO)


Subject: Re: root pswd? (HOWTO: for GRUB and LILO)
From: Adam Elkins (LinuxRobot@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 01:23:39 AKST


Thanks, it worked great.

Adam

On Monday 11 February 2002 12:51 am, James McMorris wrote:
> If you are using RH 7.2 with GRUB, here's the way to do it. (James
> Gibson @ an APULUG meeting hacked this together...I only get typing
> credit.)
>
> 1) At the Grub boot menu hit "e"
> 2) Select the line that begins with "kernel"
> 3) Hit "e" again-Move the cursor to the end of the line and add "
> init=/bin/bash" then hit enter
> 4) Press "b" to boot the system
> 5) At the bash prompt that comes up, type the following: "mount /proc"
> then hit enter-next type "mount / -o rw,remount" then hit enter next
> type "passwd" then hit enter
> 6) now enter your new password twice
> 7) You should receive a notice stating "All authentication tokens
> updated successfully". This confirms your password has been changed.
> 8) next type "mount / -o ro,remount" then hit enter-now press control-
> alt-delete to reboot
> 9) logon with new password to verify
>
>
> Spacing is important so see my original post on the ClarkConnect forum
> if you have problems reading the above:
> http://www.clarkconnect.org/forums/Forum2/HTML/001719.html
>
> Here's a reference that gives you the above procedure and a way to do
> it in LILO too.
> http://www.numenor.demon.co.uk/ccfaq/admin_tasks.htm#root_password_grub
>
>
> -Buddha
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Hodder" <asjdh26@yahoo.com>
> Date: Monday, February 11, 2002 0:30 am
> Subject: Re: root pswd?
>
> > there are many ways. But the one I like is to boot with a res. disk
> > or some thing. mount your drive and edit /etc/passwd
> >
> > root:remove:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> >
> > just remove the text between the first two :
> > then reboot and root will have no password
> >
> > jeremy
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adam Elkins" <LinuxRobot@yahoo.com>
> > To: <aklug@aklug.org>
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 12:02 AM
> > Subject: root pswd?
> >
> > > I just installed Red Hat, I chose my root password, but I guess
> >
> > I added an
> >
> > > extra keystroke or somethin, anyway, is there a way to change
> >
> > the pswd for
> >
> > > root? I Need Root.
> > >
> > > Adam
> > >
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