Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 02:18:40AM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote:
> I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and
> whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work...
> went through the normal booting from a floppy but cant seem to mount the
> harddrive so I can edit the passwd file or login as root without pass. any
> ideas? Its kinda like stupid pet tricks night.
Does it have lilo? can you give it boot parameters?
if so try this:
LILO: linux /bin/sh
This will tell the kernel that init is /bin/sh.
As soon as the kernel is done booting it will run /bin/sh and you will get
a shell.
issues:
With the real init NOT running you will have to do allot by hand
hopefully once you zap the root password...it SHOULD be sufficent
to remount the filesystem read-only and issue halt or reboot
-Steve
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