Im an idiot. Forgot root password. in All Things Unix http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21130976 en Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:34:57 EDT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:34:57 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21135596 phantasm11b : Thanks again for the replies everyone. I'll try the single user mode again. For education's sake. lol.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21135596 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:59:57 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21134763 Koil : Aha...So THIS is how you hacked Palin's account!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21134763 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:34:34 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21134298 Typhoon1k : All the versions of Linux I've used tried, I was always asked for the root password. I had to use a live cd to do reset the password.

I had once long ago to restore a deleted slackware main lib directory, that was loads of fun...Not.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21134298 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:50:04 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21133711 battleop : Try this link.

»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/remark,21133711 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:42:41 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21132693 salahx : Most Linux distributions will require the root password no matter what runlevel your start in. To reset the password, it either has to be done by passing init=/bin/bash (or similar) on the kernel command line or do it from a live CD.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21132693 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:35:35 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21132573 yock : Or whatever. It has been so long since I utilized SysV boot configurations. =)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21132573 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:17:34 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21132357 raw : You specified runlevel 2. I think Gentoo requires a password on all but runlevel 1.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21132357 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:43:29 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21132168 yock : Point taken, but the OP did specify Gentoo.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21132168 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:11:17 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21132038 koitsu :
said by yock See Profile :

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/remark,21132038 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:53:10 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21131161 yock : Single user mode should not have failed. Either you are mistaken or something is configured wrong with regards to your single user boot.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21131161 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:06:34 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21131016 deblin :
said by phantasm11b See Profile :

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/remark,21131016 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:35:54 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21131005 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21131005 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:34:23 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21130997 rolfp : Boot to single user mode. In grub, press E when the default menu entry is displayed, press E to edit the first, highlighted kernel line, type a space and 1 at the end, press Enter to commit, B to boot.

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/remark,21130997 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:32:49 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21130996 yock : This is what run level 2, single user environment, is for. At the Grub/LILO boot menu you should have an entry for single user mode, or something named similarly. It'll drop you straight into a root console where you can reset the password.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21130996 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:32:37 EDT Re: Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21130985 pmohr : Do you have sudo privs enabled for all commands?

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/remark,21130985 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:30:44 EDT Im an idiot. Forgot root password. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21130976 phantasm11b : lol. Well it had to happen sometime. I'm running Gentoo and have forgotten my root passwd. Any way to reset this? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21130976 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:29:14 EDT