Hi,

Thanks, I'm still puzzled about why it doesn't work in RHEL 6 but does so without any problem in RHEL 6.2. There has been a similar thread here on LQ which didn't shed any light but confirms the issue. If you paid for a subscription then try contacting Red Hat support and see what they have to say about it.

Kind regards,

Eric

Hi,

That's because you're trying to 'cat' a binary file. That would screw up your terminal indeed , so don't do it. To get it 'cleaned up', type CTRL-C until you get a normal prompt and then run
in the same terminal to get rid of the mess.

Kind regards,

Eric

Alrighty
I'll try and figure out if we are paying for support, if I am I'll try contacting them. Didn't realize CentOS was very RHish

I also saw this while I was researching the issue

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5142

Same bug as mine on CentOS

Thanks for taking the time to help me with this.

Hi,

Great! CentOS is a 'RHEL clone' aiming to be 100% binary compatible with RHEL. CentOS basically only removes branding and artwork. Nice catch on the bug. And you're welcome for the help, that's what LQ is all about, helping others with Linux. Since you were able to change the password, following the suggestion made by deep27ak, I guess your problem is solved. If you consider it so, then please mark your thread as solved.

Kind regards,

Eric

Hi All,

I have RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 running on a VMWARE Player. I had not started the VM in a long time and could not remember the password. I want you to know that I did boot into single-user mode (others have already described how to do this), and then I did the

password -d root
reboot

I was then able to login with root without using a password and then when I got logged in, I set the password for the root account and then logged out and rebooted without any issues. Once I had root, I was able to change the password on my user account.

Thanks for the site, the thread, and this tip.

Please let me know if you have any questions.