Re: Cannot login using root password
Unless you've left some backdoor for yourself (which would have been a bad
idea anyway), you're left with booting from cdrom, or a resuce disk set.
The basic procedure is as follows:
1. Boot up from some other media that has it's own root partition and get
to a shell. I'm not sure what specifically Debian has for this, but
basically any Linux boot disk set will do.
2. Log in to this temporary "system" as root
3. Mount your "real" root harddrive partition in /mnt (e.g. mount
/dev/hda1 /mnt)
4. Go into /mnt/etc and edit your shadow file (if you were using shadow
passwords - the default).
5. In the shadow file, copy the password hash from a user account password
you know, to the hash for root.
6. 'reboot' take the disks out and try to log in with the password you
just set
7. Change the root password
-Matt
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Kevin Strong wrote:
> Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the root
> password but I can login using other users logins. Is there anything I can
> do to regain the ability to login as root other than rebuilding the
> server.Thanks for the help in advance.
>
> Kevin Strong,BSBA
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> McKesson Information Solutions
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