Re: How to get root password

2000-03-29 Thread Andrew E. Mileski
Cristian Paslaru wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, DANG, Muoi wrote: > Yes. Its the same way, single mode. > > But also the single mode can be with a password. This is not default. You > can solve with a boot disk, or boot from cd. If you are in this point send > me an email. If your single mode has

Re: How to get root password

2000-03-29 Thread Ivan Jager
Are you sure it isn't someone else's computer you want to break into? :-) Well, I'll trust you. After turning on the computer at the LILO prompt type linux single That will boot in single user mode. There you can type passwd to change the root password. "DANG, Muoi" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I wo

Re: How to get root password

2000-03-29 Thread Cristian Paslaru
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, DANG, Muoi wrote: ->> Hi all, ->> ->> I wonder anyone out there know that way to get root password in case forget ->> it. I have a situation a guy setting up a RedHat5.2 and after few months he ->> left the company without telling the root password. Now we need to log in -

Re: How to get root password

2000-03-29 Thread Mark Shewmaker
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:42:41AM +1000, DANG, Muoi wrote: > > In HP-UX it can be done easily by booting to single mode, change a > /etc/password and reboot a computer. Can this be done on RedHat Linux? Use the "single" option at the lilo prompt. For a lilo.conf kernel config labelled "linux"