Well welcome aboard.
This might have been the harder way to do things. I assumed that you
didn't know the root (administrator) password either.
Well, with luck you'll never have to do this again :)
I will mention again that fedora-devel-list is where the engineers do
the grunt work on fedora, and they really can't do tech support. The
users list is for these kinds of questions:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Hope I helped. Now to bed. :)
--CJD
Sam Gordon wrote:
working with linux is harder then flying a plane for me lol....ive
never used it before im a windows person and my friend is trying to
successfully pull me away from it
On 10/4/07, * Casey Dahlin* <cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx
<mailto:cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
That would be the command prompt :)
Linux users who haven't seen a shell before. Fancy this wondrous
modern
age we live in. Type the following:
passwd root
and you can change the root password. Then type
passwd <your friend's username here>
and you can change his password.
Sam Gordon wrote:
> im probably buggin the hell out of u and im sorry....it rebooted it
> after i wrote single in the line for the kernels but now its
stuck at
> sh-3.1#
> and doesnt load anything
>
> On 10/4/07, *Casey Dahlin* <cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx
<mailto:cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx <mailto:cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>
> Modify kernel arguments. You want to add 'single' to the end
of the
> arguments list.
>
> Sam Gordon wrote:
> > hey wow that was fast cool...ok im in some screen and its
says GNU
> > GRUB vr. 0.97
> > Fedora Core( 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
> > i guess its like a boot window...i cant like edit commands
before
> > booting, modify kernel arguments before booting, or go to
> command line...
> > is this where i type what u said or the main login window
after the
> > system starts up?
> > cuz i tried /etc/passwd and that didnt work at all...and u
attached
> > something do i input that sumwhere?
> >
> > On 10/4/07, *Casey Dahlin* < cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx
<mailto:cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx>
> <mailto: cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx <mailto:cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx>>
> > <mailto:cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx <mailto:cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx>
<mailto:cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx <mailto:cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx>>>> wrote:
> >
> > Sam Gordon wrote:
> > > hi i got a question..my friend installed fedora on my pc
> and put in
> > > the username password and now he doesnt remember it
lol..and i
> > have no
> > > idea what it is because he installed it...is there a
way to
> > override
> > > the login or somehow bypass it and change the
information?
> plz just
> > > tell me what my options r in the matter
> >
> > This list is for development discussion. For help and
> support you
> > should
> > try fedoraforum.org <http://fedoraforum.org>
<http://fedoraforum.org>
> <http://fedoraforum.org> or #fedora on
> > irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net>
<http://irc.freenode.net>
> <http://irc.freenode.net> . That being said,
> > from the grub screen, edit your default boot settings and
> add the word
> > 'single' (without quotes) to the end of the line
mentioning
> > 'vmlinuz' .
> > When you boot, you will get a text-only shell with root
> privileges.
> >
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