RE: How to recover root password

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> Rus Foster wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Nguyen, David M wrote:
> >
> >> I forget root password.  How do I recover it?  I run redhat v9 and I
> >> have the system configured to have dual-boot.  How do I get it to
> >> single mode to recover root password?
> >>
> >
> > Hi,
> >  You can try booting with "linux init=/bin/sh"
> >
>
> Or, if running Grub, when you get the boot menu, press "e".
> Choose the boot
> option for linux and press "e" again.  Add the word "single" to the end of
> that line and press enter.  Then press "b" to boot off the modified line.
> That will boot you to a bash prompt where you can type "passwd" to change
> root's password.
>


For those of you who have heard of "chpw"  would you be able ot use that in
this instance?  I haven't tried it on any redhat machines yet, and haven't
tried it on a large windows server-type arcihtecture.

Those not familiar, "chpw"  is a free utility out there chpw which basically
amounts to a "single-user" mode off of a floppy or cdrom.  It was originally
written to recover forgotten windows passwords.  You put the floppy/cd in
and boot off of it.  I believe it's a small redhat kernel with lots of
drivers for various hard drives and cdroms.  After boot up from floppy you
can mount your hard drive and do whatever you need to do.  I used it a year
ago or so to successfully recover lost windows passwords and I don't see why
it wouldn't work as a single user boot up for redhat.  :) Hmm.. something to
test out later when there's more time.

Cheers :)

Ben Y


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