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.
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