http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21130976 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:50:00 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:50:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21135596 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21135596 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:59:57 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21134763 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21134763 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:34:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21134298
I had once long ago to restore a deleted slackware main lib directory, that was loads of fun...Not.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21134298 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:50:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21133711
»gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Reset_a_Lo···Password

Gentoo is not the flavor of Linux I use so I can't verify if this method works.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21133711 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:42:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21132693 init=/bin/bash (or similar) on the kernel command line or do it from a live CD.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21132693 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:35:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21132573 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21132573 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:17:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21132357 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21132357 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:43:29 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21132168 did specify Gentoo.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21132168 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:11:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21132038 said by yock:

Single user mode should not have failed. Either you are mistaken or something is configured wrong with regards to your single user boot.
Except on certain versions of Solaris, where single-user mode prompts you for root's password. :-) (I believe there's an override for this, but you get the point.)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21132038 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:53:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21131161 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21131161 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:06:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21131016 said by phantasm11b:

I had tried this and it failed. Then i thought why not try and use sudo. Wow. Sudo worked, didnt think it would.. that;s kind of scary.
Not really. The sudo binary is setuid (u+s) so if your sudoers allows, you can sudo su - and that only requires your user password. Not scary at all, that's how sudo works. Now if you were able to sudo su - without entering your luser's password, THAT would be scary. ;)
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -Socrates]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21131016 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:35:54 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21131005 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21131005 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:34:23 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21130997
passwd

at the prompt will prompt you for a new password, which you verify in the next prompt.

I think lilo uses Esc to get into a mode to edit the boot stanzas. Maybe Failsafe mode is available to you in the menu.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21130997 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:32:49 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21130996 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21130996 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:32:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21130985
If not, easiest way is to boot off of a livecd and chroot in (as you did during initial install).

EDIT: Even better, as those below posted. The one or two times I've had to do this on other systems, didn't even think about single user mode...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21130985 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:30:44 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21130976 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Im-an-idiot-Forgot-root-password-21130976 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:29:14 EDT