On Friday 20 March 2009 17:11:20 Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:57:29PM EDT, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > > > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao <jcao.li...@gmail.com>: > > > >> > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. > > > >> > Then, you can change root password. > > > >> > > > >> Ah..banging my head why I did not think of this... > > > > > > > > Because it doesn't work in Etch or Lenny? Don't know about other > > > > versions of Debian. I have certainly used distros where it did work. > > > > > > > > If you try to boot into single user mode it demands the root > > > > password. Otherwise it won't let you in. > > > > > > > > Lisi > > > > > > It does not demands the root password. It just request you to give root > > > a new password, which is the chance you could change root password > > > without knowing the old one. > > > > We must have different installations. I have used Etch and then Lenny > > for some time and I cannot boot into single user without giving it the > > correct (already existing) root password. > > > > The method suggested by Doug would still not give you write access, which > > you would need in order to change root's password. > > mount -o remount,rw /dev/whatever
Thanks! There are obviously many ways to skin a cat. ;-) As I said, having been using chroot from a Live CD successfully, and anyway rarely, I hadn't bothered looking any further. Many other distros of course go straight into a root CLI if you choose single user from the grub menu. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
