Re: Technical Inquiry
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:57:29PM EDT, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote:
> > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > If you try to boot into single user mode it demands the root password.
> > > Otherwise it won't let you in.
> > >
> > > Lisi
> >
> > It does not demands the root password. It just request you to give root
> > a new password, which is the chance you could change root password without
> > knowing the old one.
>
> We must have different installations. I have used Etch and then Lenny for
> some time and I cannot boot into single user without giving it the correct
> (already existing) root password.
>
> The method suggested by Doug would still not give you write access, which you
> would need in order to change root's password.
mount -o remount,rw /dev/whatever
CJ
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