root password

[Ann Morrison]

fantastic!! thanks

now all i need do is remember how to save n quit in vim...I have it written
down somewhere... and I'm set

thanks very much for your help with this

anmore

> From: mutex <mutex@mac.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Date: 26 May 2002 11:08:30 -0600
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: re: root password
> 
> You can do this quite easily since you have physical access to the
> machine(or i assume you do).  All you need to do is boot the machine in
> single user mode, when you get to the yaboot prompt for choosing your
> kernel enter in your kernel image name, for example "linux-2.4", then
> append "single" to it, so you should be typing "linux-2.4 single".  Your
> machine will begin to boot normally but will stop after a couple of init
> scripts are run and present you with with a shell.  Now you just cd into
> /etc and use your favorite editor to edit the shadow file.
> The shadow file layout is as follows, a user's entry will look like so:
> 
> rogue5:$1$kPRnIaCK$jblifu234j983bn24C0:11830:0:99999:7:::
> 
> (don't try to crack this its a random stream of characters, and not a
> real passwd entry ;-)
> 
> Each field is seperated by a colon, first is the user name, second is
> the password hash.  You need to erase the second field, in your case the
> field for the root user, so the end result would be:
> 
> rogue5::11830:0:99999:7:::
> 
> Now save the file, reboot your machine and login as root user, it
> shouldn't prompt you for a password and now you can set it to whatever
> you like with the passwd command.
> enjoy
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 00:32, ann wrote:
>> ok inadvertently and in a hurry (no way to install stuff I know) I omitted to
>> write down my root password (for security reasons..hah), a few months down
>> the track and not having been using it, I ..cant remember it... is there
>> anyway I can find out the root password as a standard user??
>> 
>> regards
>> 
>> anmore
> 
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