On 8/9/06, Priya PM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I forgot my root password to login. Is there anyway I can login without
> password or is there anyway I can reset the password?
>
Provided that your guest (UML) distro uses /etc/passwd to store the
password hashes, you can reset the root password as follows (note that
you need root access on the host system to do this):
1. mount the uml rootfs:
mount -o loop <path_to_rootfs> <temp_mnt_path>
2. from the file <temp_mnt_path>/etc/passwd search for a line like this
root:XXXXXXX:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
where XXXXXXX represents the password hash
3. remove the hash from the file, unmount the rootfs and start uml -
no root password
is required to login
BR,
Samuel Korpi
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