From: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
To: Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@yahoo.com>
Cc: admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: root password
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 13:38:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16974.37459.930871.583279@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050330071611.44428.qmail@web52905.mail.yahoo.com>
Ankit Jain wrote:
> 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.
Add "init=/bin/sh" to the kernel's command line at boot time. Then it
will boot directly into a root shell.
However, if you've configured the boot loader to prohibit passing
arguments to the kernel (or if you've configured it to require a
password and have forgotten that as well), you'll need to boot from a
CD.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-02 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ 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
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 [this message]
2005-04-03 3:03 ` Re[2]: root password *reset root password with grub* Kev
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-30 7:48 root password Wei Zhang GR
2005-03-30 10:31 Rajat Jain, Noida
2005-03-30 13:29 Mike Turcotte
2005-04-03 4:39 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 14:24 ` Scott Taylor
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