On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 08:28:33PM +0100, Dom wrote: > On 11/08/11 19:46, Walter Hurry wrote: > >On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:23:17 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:25 AM, abdelkader belahcene > >><abelahcene@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>>I ve forgotten my root passwd on centos 6 (red hat based), > >>> > >>>I tried to change it as I used in debian (in debian it works perfectly) > >>>, that is: > >>> > (snippage) > > > >All the responses (except one) have me mystified. Why can't OP just boot > >into single user mode? > > Because you need the root password to enter single user mode? sulogin is easy enough to bypass. * Boot Live CD * Mount / * Edit /etc/inittab * Comment out si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS * Reboot into single user mode Much easer than chroots, or any of the other previous suggestion, IMO. -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o
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