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04-16-2008, 01:52 AM
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root password
Hi Guys,
I want to know how to recover root password in Red Hat Linux without media?
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04-16-2008, 01:59 AM
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Without which Media? You mean Recovery/Live CD?
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04-16-2008, 02:14 AM
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Registered: Mar 2006
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You can't really recover it, only reset it - is that what you want?
If you are booting through grub, hit escape at the menu, type e on the entry you boot from, then add "single" at the end of the kernel line. Boot and you should be in single user mode. Use password command to set new password for root.
See http://linuxgazette.net/107/tomar.html
Last edited by billymayday; 11-12-2008 at 04:32 AM.
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