my username screen locked me of

arnon · 12-29-2006, 09:45 AM

i'm using rh9.0.
the username entrance screen prohibit me from logging in. how do i overcome. it says turn to the administrator. but i'm-its my personal system

w3bd3vil · 12-29-2006, 08:57 PM

so you are probably doing something wrong or forgot your password.
when grub loads boot into runlevel 1 and change your password there and try again.

arnon · 12-30-2006, 04:38 AM

Thanks for the attention. But let me explain.
The first screen after Grub loads->rh9.0 is the "enter username and password" screen.
the system has locked me of(probably because i was trying to enter wrong username). how do i unlock considering that i'm myself administrator.(i'd like to point that i have the correct username and password and was only trying to play with the system and now it's locked for the real password also). thanks a lot

w3bd3vil · 12-30-2006, 04:58 AM

you mean to say that when you select your kernel and press enter at the grub screen you immed. require to input pass/user? cant you boot into single user mode(runlevel 1)?

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If you use the GRUB bootloader, you can indicate the desired runlevel by pressing e to edit the boot configuration (if GRUB is configured to allow you to do so) and appending the desired runlevel (e.g. 1 at the end of the boot command:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-5 ro root=/dev/hda9 1

arnon · 12-30-2006, 09:23 AM

after i select rh9.0 at Grub i am requierd to enter user/pass.
i be happy to load "single user".if you can be more specific about the howto.
i'll be happy to avoid this user/pass screen i'm getting.
thanks for the attention.

aherrys · 12-30-2006, 09:37 PM

Boot using a rescue disk (or some rescue or live CD that let you boot off the memory. Slax Live would be fine http://www.slax.org/ ).

mount your hard drive partition containing /etc directory of your system to some mount directory

edit /etc/shadow file

delete everything between the first and second colon of the row that starts with root.

type sync several times

reboot your system, and then you should be able to login with username root and no password.