Rafa Grimán wrote:
> On Thursday 03 February 2011 14:59 Giles Coochey wrote
>> On 03/02/2011 14:40, Rafa Griman wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, James Bensley<jwbensley@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >> So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in
>> >> I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither
>> >> of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to
>> >> correct this so I'm wondering, if I had mounted that vdi as a
>> >> secondary device on another VM, browsed the file system and delete
>> >> /etc/shadow would this have wiped all users passwords meaning I could
>> >> regain access again?
>> >>
<snip>
>> That would do it... There is single-user-mode (runlevel 1), just add the
>> word single to the kernel parameters line before bootup
>
> Yes, but S|Single|1 asks for root password to login ... And he doesn't
> have the root password ;)
Boot from a rescue CD/DVD, then chroot and use passwd.
mark
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