Re: admin password?
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On 31.12.2012 06:03, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> If you did not lock system with grub password, you can always
> login as root without password.
>
> Google with "grub init=/bin/bash mount" you get many howtos
> describing:
>
> Boot with
>
> init=/bin/bash
>
> or
>
> init=/bin/sh
>
> for GRUB. Then at root prompt
>
> mount -o remount,rw /
>
> to reset with "passwd".
I recommend booting with "rw init=/bin/bash". The "rw" removes the
need to run "mount -o remount,rw /".
I would also like to add running command "sync" after changing the
password with "passwd" to ensure that the change gets written to disk.
- --
Mika Suomalainen
http://mkaysi.github.com/
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