Re: Lost password

["Jeremy Utley" <jerutley@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/25/06, Robin Kauffman <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi-
>         A more secure way to update your root password with a (Live|rescue)CD
> is to mount your root partition somewhere, chroot to it and then run
> 'passwd'.  Of course, this only works if you have one partition for both
> your /etc directory and /usr directory.  If not, you can always mount
> the respective partitions at their appropriate locations.
>         The advantage of this is that your machine never has a blank root
> password.
>
>                 -Robin K.


Still another possibility is to append "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel
line.  This will boot the system, and instead of starting sysvinit via
/sbin/init, will immediately execute a shell with an effective UID of
0.  Once that's done, remount the root partition read-write via "mount
-o remount,rw /"  use the passwd command to change the password, and
power-cycle the machine.

Jeremy, NW7JU
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