Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 08:30:53AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> 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
>
remounting read-only does not always work. Just sync your disks and reboot.
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