On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Anthony Newland <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just finished installing Fedora 10 into the Sun VirtualBox, and now I > can't seem to login. I don't remember making up a user account for this, so > I have no idea what it could be. Thoughts?
Boot your VM off your installation CD - or attach the installer ISO image to your VM as a virtual CD. >From the installer, start a shell, then mount the root filesystem of your VM. There are two ways to deal with it at that point: one would be to edit /etc/shadow with vi or nano, and just eliminate the root password, that is, remove the characters between the two colons that delimit encrypted password field, so that it becomes just "::". After booting your VM normally, and logging in with no password, go and set a password. Alternatively you can chroot into the mounted root filesystem, and from there you can use the adduser command to set up a user for yourself. Put that user into the /etc/sudoers files so you can administrate the VM during a normal boot. I'll send you my bill in the mail. xD Don Quixote -- Don Quixote de la Mancha [email protected] http://www.dulcineatech.com Dulcinea Technologies Corporation: Software of Elegance and Beauty. -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
