Hi,
I was recently hospitalized and I didn't use my computer for awhile.
During that time I forgot my password for root and I forgot where I
wrote it down.
Can I find that password somewhere on my system? Will I have to do a
total reinstall?
Thank you for any help you can give.
Eric
eric wrote:
Hi,
I was recently hospitalized and I didn't use my computer for awhile.
During that time I forgot my password for root and I forgot where I
wrote it down.
Can I find that password somewhere on my system? Will I have to do a
total reinstall?
Thank you for any help you can give.
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 00:26, eric wrote:
Hi,
I was recently hospitalized and I didn't use my computer for awhile.
During that time I forgot my password for root and I forgot where I
wrote it down.
Can I find that password somewhere on my system? Will I have to do a
total reinstall?
Franki wrote:
Hi,
I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that
matters.
Boot from the mandrake CD1
I did that
press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt.
I did that
when it comes up, in rescue mode, type: chroot /mnt
This didn't work. When it
Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
No luck with this.
When the system boots and you get the boot prompt, type in linux
single.
I get an error that says no such file as linux.
Any ideas.
Eric
That will put you into single user root mode where you can execute the
passwd command and change your root password
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:59, eric wrote:
Franki wrote:
I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that
matters.
Boot from the mandrake CD1
I did that
press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt.
I did that
when it comes up, in rescue mode,
Sharrea Day wrote:
Follow Franki's instructions but ignore the chroot /mnt part and instead
choose Mount your partitions in /mnt from the menu that comes up.
I did that.
Then when it goes back to this same menu choose Go to console.
It comes back to that menu after I hit enter but after I
when it comes up, in rescue mode, type: chroot /mnt
Im not certain that's going to work... what is actually mounted at
that point? His root partition? What chroot does is to change the
root partition basically. Putting in NEWROOT is just a sample place,
it's not meant to be taken literally.
eric wrote:
Franki wrote:
Hi,
I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that
matters.
Boot from the mandrake CD1
I did that
press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt.
I did that
when it comes up, in rescue mode, type: chroot /mnt
This
Sharrea Day wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:59, eric wrote:
Franki wrote:
I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that
matters.
Boot from the mandrake CD1
I did that
press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt.
I did that
when it comes up, in rescue
David E. Fox wrote:
when it comes up, in rescue mode, type: chroot /mnt
Im not certain that's going to work... what is actually mounted at
that point? His root partition? What chroot does is to change the
root partition basically. Putting in NEWROOT is just a sample place,
it's not meant to
- Original Message -
From: Ricardo Núñez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cc: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Lost root password
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Somehow I lost root password. Is thre any way to login
13, 2000 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Lost root password
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Somehow I lost root password. Is thre any way to login
as root again?
Thanks a lot.
Eduardo
Reboot in single user mode (in Lilo, type linux s) and run
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Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Lost root password
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote:
Does not sound like much security to me.
as always (hey, it's linux), you can configure
- Original Message -
From: Ricardo Núñez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cc: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Lost root password
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Somehow I lost root password. Is thre
any way
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Somehow I lost root password. Is thre any way to login
as root again?
Thanks a lot.
Eduardo
At the LILO boot prompt, type :
linux 1
the system will startup in single user mode, no need to login- you will
already be root. You will have to make a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Somehow I lost root password. Is thre any way to login
as root again?
Thanks a lot.
Eduardo
Reboot in single user mode (in Lilo, type linux s) and run passwd
--
Saludos,
Ing. Ricardo Núñez
Webmaster de la DST
Universidad Simón
Does not sound like much security to me.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user 183185
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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Lost root
- Original Message -
From: Ricardo Núñez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Lost root password
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Somehow I lost root password. Is thre any way
Hello
Somehow I lost root password. Is thre any way to login
as root again?
Thanks a lot.
Eduardo
at the lilo prompt, try
linux s or linux single
on some systems this will boot the machine to a single user mode with no
need to login, then you can run (if memory serves) 'passwd root' at the
prompt and change the password for root
some people think this is a security flaw in linux but i have
AMHA,
An other way, or if single no more exist
(Sorry Bascule, I doubt it can be done in this mode):
Start with the boot and rescue disk (cd inserted).
After the intro message (if message is), type exit.
Mount a root partition on the HD, utilize fdisk -l to see
the existing partitions.
After
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