Re: recover lost root password
On Saturday 08 March 2003 4:41 pm, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Well here's a good one, is there a way to get into a system when you've
> lost the root password? Without a CD or boot floppy? Used to be you could
> pass in "init=/bin/sh" from LILO, and work some /etc/shadow magic. (like
> copy the hashed root password from a different system) But GRUB is
> different...
Haw. I am 733t. Figured it out. ;-) Pass in init=/bin/sh on the kernel line.
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