On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Syam Krishnan sent out 1.1K bytes to say: > Arnav Kalra wrote: > >i forgot the root password please help Wow, this is a complicated method
> 1. Start your computer and wait for grub to show up > 2. Locate the entry to boot Fedora, and press 'e' to edit > 3. You'll see a line that starts with "kernel /boot/vmlinuz....." > 4. Move to the end of that line and append: "linux 1" (without the > quotes, a plain 1 is also said to work) > 5. Now press 'b' to boot Or, locate the grub entry, press 'a' to append and add 'single' to that line > 6. You'll boot in to run level 1. Once you get the sh prompt, edit > /etc/passwd file using vi (or any other editor) > 7. The first line should be for the user root: > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > 8. Remove the 'x' character in the second field. i.e. make it: > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > 9. Save and quit vi > 10. Reboot your computer. Your root password will be deleted. Set a new > password. In the shell, type in passwd. Change password and press ctrl-d -- Tejas Dinkar http://gja.in _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india