Re: Technical Inquiry
Boot into single user mode, and you are the root.
Then, you can change root password.
On 2009-03-20, Sudev Barar <sbarar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/20 hadi motamedi <motamedi24@gmail.com>:
>> "We have one HP t5725 server with Debian Linux 3.1 installed but the
>> operator is getting the following message on the console port when trying to
>> boot the server :
>> "Unexpected inconsistency, run fsck manually . give root password for
>> maintenance or type ctrl-D to continue"
>> Unfortunately, he has forgottten for the root password and pressing ctrl-D
>> will just reboot the server to the above message again. Please let me know
>> how we can overcome.
>
> One way this can be done is that you can boot from a Live CD, mount
> the root partition and then edit the /etc/shadow. Remove only the
> password hash field for root. Then reboot the server directly and
> enter root without password.
>
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