Subject: Re: root pswd? (HOWTO: for GRUB and LILO)
From: larry collier (lcollier@ak.net)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 02:43:31 AKST
Does booting to single user mode not work with GRUB?
Larry
2/11/02 1:23:39 AM, Adam Elkins <LinuxRobot@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Thanks, it worked great.
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>Adam
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>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.)
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> -Buddha
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeremy Hodder" <asjdh26@yahoo.com>
>> Date: Monday, February 11, 2002 0:30 am
>> Subject: Re: root pswd?
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>> > 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
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>> > root:remove:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
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>> > 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?
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>> > > I just installed Red Hat, I chose my root password, but I guess
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>> > I added an
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>> > > extra keystroke or somethin, anyway, is there a way to change
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>> > the pswd for
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>> > > root? I Need Root.
>> > >
>> > > Adam
>> > >
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