Re: Technical Inquiry
On Friday 20 March 2009 16:14:03 Juan Carlos Avila Sanchez wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lisi Reisz [mailto:lisi.reisz@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:34 AM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Technical Inquiry
> >
> > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote:
> > > 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao <jcao.linux@gmail.com>:
> > > > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root.
> > > > Then, you can change root password.
> > >
> > > Ah..banging my head why I did not think of this...
> >
> > Because it doesn't work in Etch or Lenny? Don't know about
> > other versions of Debian. I have certainly used distros
> > where it did work.
>
> Some time ago, when lenny was 'testing', I forgot my laptop's root
> password. This is what I did:
>
> 1. Choose 'single user' in grub menu.
> 2. Select your kernel and press e to edit kernel line before boot.
> 3. Add 'init=/bin/sh rw' (or something like that)
> 4. Press b to boot (or enter, don't remember) and change root pass...
>
> Hope it helps..
I have only tried a straight boot up. Having found that that doesn't work, I
use chroot from a Live CD because that has always worked when I needed it. I
might try your method next time. I don't have to retrieve root access very
often.
Lisi
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