Zouari Fourat wrote:
Hello,
I've got debian sarge installed and i've lost my root's password, how
to reset it ?
This is probably found via google fairly easily, as it comes up fairly
often.
A couple of quick possibilities:
1) Boot off a live CD like Knoppix, mount the / partition as read/write,
and edit "/etc/passwd", removing the "x" in the second field. Save the
file, boot into single-user mode (not using Knoppix), and reset the
password with "passwd". (You may need to then check to make sure the "x"
is back in place; I can't recall.)
or if you don't have a live CD handy
2) at the lilo prompt (or equivalent), enter "linux init=/bin/bash".
This will give you a very limited linux environment, in which you can
remount the / partition read/write (like "mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda1
/"), and then make the changes mentioned above in scenario #1.
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Kent
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