Re: I forgot the root password, can not maintain my machine.
--- Kent West <westk@acu.edu> 的正文：> Long Li
wrote:
>
> >How can I login as root now?
> >
>
> Hopefully you've set up a sudo account, in which
> case you can simply
> "sudo passwd root" to change root's password.
>
> If not, at the LILO prompt, enter something like:
>
> linux init=/bin/bash
>
> which, if security is not too tight on you system,
> allow you to get a
> console with root privileges; edit /etc/passwd so
> that the line with
> root's data has nothing in the second field, where
> an "x" is currently.
> Probably. Depends on several assumptions.
After I enter linux init=/bin/bash after lilo, I got a
console like this:
init-2.03#
But when I edit the file /etc/passwd, systme told me:
init-2.03# ed /etc/passwd
Read-only file system.
So I can not modify that file. How can edit that
file?
> Then reboot and you should be able to log in as root
> without a password,
> and then change it.
>
> Then realize that your system is more vulnerable
> than it needs to be and
> fix it.
>
> Kent
>
>
>
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