On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:36:01AM +0100, Pieter De Troyer wrote: > Hi, > > After letting it catch some dust in the past months I dug up an old > workstation that wasn't completely configured yet. > > Problem: don't remember the root password. Only the password from the > only other user account on the machine. Booting in single user mode > prompted me for the root password (or ctrl+d) for normal boot. > > what can i do? >
Reboot, and at LILO, or whatever, append INIT=/bin/bash Then once you get the bash prompt, you will be root. You need to do the following: mount -o rw,remount -t type /dev/hdXX / mount -t proc proc /proc mount /usr passwd umount /usr mount -t ro,remount -t type /dev/hdXX / reboot That should work, just be sure of your / fs type and the partition before you do this. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England
