Re: Just installed Fedora Core 8. No root password ???
- From: swengtoo <swengtoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 15:10:13 -0700 (PDT)
On May 6, 4:09 pm, swengtoo <sweng...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just installed Fedora Core 8. All went well. After the 1st reboot I
was prompted by "last stage" setup which included setting up the first
"normal" user (i.e. no administrative privileges).
I logged in with that account without any problem. However, when I
arrived to my first task in configuring something in the system, I was
prompted for the 'root' password.
Problem is... I never entered any root password. The installation went
almost completely unattended, so Fedora may have prompted for such
password then timed out with some default?
Anyway, my question is: How do I find out what that "default" root
password it? (it is not that first normal user's password - I already
tried that).
Thanks,
Sweng
I Solved the problem. Here is how:
1) Reboot and at the GRUB prompt move cursor to the 2nd line
and append: 'linux single'
2) The kernel will load up and you will be straight into a root shell.
3) Now type 'passwd root' to set the new password and reboot to
resume operations.
Thank me, :-)
Sweng
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