Phil Meyer wrote:
On 08/10/2009 04:39 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
2009/8/10 Jerry Feldman<gaf@xxxxxxx>:
On 08/10/2009 09:01 AM, Tiago Araujo wrote:
Dear,
I need recovery password in FC 11.
There is none. The best way to recover a lost root password is to boot
the installation media, the root file system should be mounted on
/mnt/sysimage, but if it is not, you can mount it by hand.
The use the chroot(8) command to set /mnt/sysimage as your root, then
use the passwd(1) command to change the password, then to be safe,
unmount /mnt/sysimage.
Example:
(if the root file system is not mounted: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sysimage
(assuming this is where root is) )
chroot /mnt/sysimage
passwd
-->you will be prompted
umount /mnt/sysimage
The reboot. The umount is very important.
Just for knowledge's sake, why is the umount so important?
A umount will force a flush of the file system's buffers, thus making
sure that your changes are saved.
If you exit gracefully from single user, this should happen as a matter
of course, but not everyone will exit gracefully from single user or
rescue mode.
Plus, you may want to do more than one thing in recovery mode, and this
step reminds you to 'save your work'.
Thank you. I get to learn everyday on this list! :)
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Suvayu
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