Re: root password forgotten
One thing you can do: hold left shift during boot to get a prompt, and
at the "LILO:" prompt enter "Linux init=/bin/sh" (possibly replacing
"Linux" with another image name if your box doesn't have the default).
The root fs will come up read-only. To be able to mount other
filesystems and otherwise bring the box to a usable state,
mount -o rw,remount /
HTH.
-m
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:36:01AM +0100, Pieter De Troyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After letting it catch some dust in the past months I dug up an old
> workstation that wasn't completely configured yet.
>
> Problem: don't remember the root password. Only the password from the
> only other user account on the machine. Booting in single user mode
> prompted me for the root password (or ctrl+d) for normal boot.
>
> what can i do?
>
> pieter
>
>
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