Hi, I forgot my root password of Suse 9.1. Anyone knows how can i get new password. Please help me Rakesh Deshmukh -- Don't blame me why linux is open source !!
On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 07:16 +0530, Rakesh Deshmukh wrote:
Hi, I forgot my root password of Suse 9.1. Anyone knows how can i get new password.
Boot rescue system mount /dev/hda1 /mnt (replace hda1 with whatever happens to be your root partition) chroot /mnt passwd type the new password twice exit reboot
Don't blame me why linux is open source !!
What on earth is that supposed to mean?
Cool. That's a lot easier than a "non-upgrade" install I once did for the
same reason [confession: a different distribution, sounded like
man-something].
Gene
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On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 07:16 +0530, Rakesh Deshmukh wrote:
Hi, I forgot my root password of Suse 9.1. Anyone knows how can i get new password.
Boot rescue system mount /dev/hda1 /mnt (replace hda1 with whatever happens to be your root partition) chroot /mnt passwd type the new password twice exit reboot
Don't blame me why linux is open source !!
What on earth is that supposed to mean?
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On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 18:46, Rakesh Deshmukh wrote:
Hi, I forgot my root password of Suse 9.1. Anyone knows how can i get new password. Please help me Rakesh Deshmukh
I didn't see any root password recovery information in the SuSE documentation, but I have the following an old Mandrake User Administration guide. 1. Reboot to init 1 LILO - type linux init 1 GRUB - hit the 'e' key twice and add init 1 to the boot command and a 'b' to boot. 2. Edit the shadow file with vi /etc/shadow Position the cursor just after 'root:' type 'dw' and then :wq 3. Type 'init 6' to reboot. 4. Boot into 'init 3' this time. 5. Type 'root' for the account and just hit <ENTER> at the "password" prompt. 6. Then type 'passwd' followed by the new password for root. Like I said, this came out of a Mandrake user guide. If anyone on the list sees an error in this, I hope they will post a correction. Barry
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 21:17 -0700, Barry Premeaux wrote:
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 18:46, Rakesh Deshmukh wrote:
Hi, I forgot my root password of Suse 9.1. Anyone knows how can i get new password. Please help me Rakesh Deshmukh
I didn't see any root password recovery information in the SuSE documentation, but I have the following an old Mandrake User Administration guide.
1. Reboot to init 1
LILO - type linux init 1
GRUB - hit the 'e' key twice and add init 1 to the boot command and a 'b' to boot.
By default you need root's password to log in in runlevel 1/S
2. Edit the shadow file with
vi /etc/shadow
Position the cursor just after 'root:'
type 'dw' and then :wq
3. Type 'init 6' to reboot.
4. Boot into 'init 3' this time.
5. Type 'root' for the account and just hit <ENTER> at the "password" prompt.
6. Then type 'passwd' followed by the new password for root.
Why not just run "passwd" directly in runlevel 1, assuming you can log in there?
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