Re: Technical Inquiry

[Robert Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net>]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Jeffrey Cao wrote:

> Boot into single user mode, and you are the root.
> Then, you can change root password.

Says he, carefully snipping the admonition in the post he quoted about 
top posting. Priceless.

> 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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