Re: lost root password
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, tripolar wrote:
> while installing sarge on my parents pc using new installer ( sweet!!) when it
> came to typing in root password I typed it twice in same line but didnt
> notice until it came for me to verify my typing again. I left the second line
> blank thinking when i rebooted there would be no password and could easily
> add root password then.
> No suck luck. rebooted and tried one instance of root passwd and two instances
> of root passwd. no luck. cant log in.
> I rebooted there machine with a knoppix cd, mounted the harddrive read-write,
> used vi to edit /etc/shadow & /etc/passwd
> to reset root password.
> still no luck
> what am i missing?
> Thanks
>
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You can boot into single user mode or do a chroot.
chroot is easy. boot up knoppix.
goto console (for root access). I'll assume /dev/hda1 is your root.
do
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
chroot /mnt
(you are not root on you debian install)
passwd
(this will change the root password)
exit
(done, reboot and takeout cd from drive)
(try new root password)
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the other way is to boot into your debian machien with the boot option:
S
so,
Boot: linux s
or
Boot: knoppix s
which ever is the 'label' in your lilo.conf file.
-kev
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