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Subject: Re: root password
From: Ray Olszewski <ray () comarre ! com>
Date: 2005-03-30 14:36:32
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.1.20050330063201.02035bd0 () celine
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At 11:16 PM 3/29/2005 -0800, Ankit Jain wrote:
>hi
>
>i have forgotten my root pasword. i had installed
>redhat linux 9.0 kernel version 2.4 with grub loader.
>if somebody can tell me how to change the password
>without logging.
The normal solution to this sort of problem is to boot the system using a
rescue disk (floppy or CD, depending on your hardware); mount the
filesystem with the password problem at some convenient mount point; and
delete the root password entry from /etc/shadow . Then reboot normally, log
in as root (with no password) and set a new root password. Do all of this
with the system disconnected from the Internet, of course, until you have a
new root password in place.
Any other suggestion of how to become root without knowing the root
password is a technique for breaking into systems, and I (and I hope
everyone else) will not give advice on that publicly, in this forum or
anywhere else.
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