From: Robin Doer <robin@robind.de>
To: Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@yahoo.com>
Cc: admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: root password
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:07:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <424AB2BF.4060208@robind.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050330071611.44428.qmail@web52905.mail.yahoo.com>
Ankit Jain schrieb:
>hi
>
>i have forgotten my root pasword. i had installed
>redhat linux 9.0 kernel version 2.4 with grub loader.
>if somebody can tell me how to change the password
>without logging.
>
>thanks
>
>ankit
>
>
Boot Linux from a CD. Knoppix for example, Radhat installation medium or
whatever. If you have only one big partition it's quiet easy!
Mount your local partition (e.g. mount /dev/<xxx> /mnt/wherever) and
chroot into it (chroot /mnt/wherever). And then "passwd" to change the
password.
Hope it help!
Robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-30 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-30 7:16 root password Ankit Jain
2005-03-30 14:07 ` Robin Doer [this message]
2005-03-30 14:36 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-04-01 16:23 ` Tobias Hirning
2005-04-01 16:52 ` Eric Bambach
2005-04-01 18:03 ` Tobias Hirning
2005-04-02 18:53 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-04-02 19:11 ` Tobias Hirning
2005-04-01 16:55 ` Eric Bambach
2005-04-01 18:23 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-04-01 23:57 ` J.
2005-04-02 0:56 ` Peter
2005-03-30 16:36 ` Manish Regmi
2005-03-31 0:57 ` terry white
2005-03-31 1:32 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-04-02 12:38 ` Glynn Clements
2005-04-03 3:03 ` Re[2]: root password *reset root password with grub* Kev
2005-04-03 3:04 ` Kev
2005-04-03 3:53 ` joy merwin monteiro
2005-04-04 3:39 ` Glynn Clements
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-03 4:39 root password Ankit Jain
2005-04-03 5:05 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-04-03 5:14 ` Grant Coady
2005-04-04 2:48 ` Glynn Clements
2005-04-04 11:42 ` Andrew
2005-04-04 14:24 ` Scott Taylor
2005-03-30 13:29 Mike Turcotte
2005-03-30 10:31 Rajat Jain, Noida
2005-03-30 7:48 Wei Zhang GR
1999-08-23 9:06 Root Password Pete Young
1999-08-23 10:15 ` Alistair Lambie
1999-08-21 17:40 William Holmes
1999-08-21 21:19 ` Todd M. Shrider
1999-08-21 22:09 ` brett
1999-08-21 17:27 ` Todd M. Shrider
1999-08-22 2:04 ` Raj Mathur
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