Re: root password doesn't work
- From: Vahis <waxborg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:11:32 +0200
Broderick Crawford wrote:
Vahis wrote:
Inge Svensson wrote:
After trying to install some graphic drivers in openSUSE 10.3 suddenlyYou don't need to reinstall if you lost the root password, it can be
when I tried to do an on line update I got a message that it was
incorrect password. I'm absolutely sure it was not. I had to reinstall.
Anyone else who experienced this problem.
Inge Svensson
changed.
I have usually given these two ways (I've learned them from somewhere
here sometimes) to do that.
Method 1:
1. reboot the box and for the options run "init=/bin/bash"
2. when you get the system prompt type "mount -o remount,rw /"
3. then reset the password by typing "passwd"
Method 2:
At the boot screen (GRUB), type an 'E', then highlight the line
containing 'kernel' and press 'E' again. At the end of the line add a
space and then:
init=/bin/bash
Press 'Enter' and then 'B' (to boot). You will be dumped in a single
user command line where you enter:
passwd
and change it, then reboot.
Vahis
Will this also allow you to break into somebody else's system?
If you have physical access to a computer and you can do the things
advised above, yes, of course.
Vahis
--
"Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important
stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"
Linus Torvalds 1996.
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