Lost my password
 

I just loaded Slackware and everything appeared okay even through the initial boot but when I went to login it won't accept my password. I must be giving it the wrong password. How do I find out or change the password?

At the boot screen you will see a list of installed images (kernels) on your system and a boot: prompt

you need to type the image name followed by init=/bin/sh


like this

linux init=/bin/sh

If you have a custom name for the image it will be something like this

Linux-2.4.19-lq4 init=/bin/sh

That is a cool trick, I have never tried that. The only way I know how to to boot off the cd, mount the drive, vi the passwd file, remove the "x", save the file and reboot. Now root will not have a passwd, it can login in with out typing one. Then you have to provide it a passwd again.

right, this way you are in a root login without logging in. then you can set the password using passwd.

On some systems you can boot into single user mode, but some of them still require a login for single mode. Slackware will still bring up a login prompt if you use "linux single", but "linux init=/bin/sh" works

Well, it didn't work. The problem is, is that I typed in the wrong password and it wouldn't work. I confused my uppercase letters with lower case. But anyhow I just reinstalled and I took extra careful with the password and now it works. Thanks anyhow.

if "it did not work" then you did not use the correct image name

it always works

Normally, your password should be : *******
:D :D :D