[SOLVED] reset root passwd in rhel 6

arun natarajan · 05-09-2016, 11:30 AM

hi,

after editing the grub file from the starting menu with e and then booting with run level 1 , am not able to reset the root's user passwd.

PFA for reference.

Same procedure works in rhel 5 not in rhel 6.

Any other things needs to be done ??

lazydog · 05-09-2016, 11:51 AM

Are you part of the wheel group? If so then you don't have to go to these extremes.

Simply login as yourself or a user that is part of the wheel group and run the following:

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sudo bash

Give the user password then run the following:

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passwd

Now set your new root password.

arun natarajan · 05-09-2016, 12:03 PM

have tried as suggested, but no success.

PFA for reference

lazydog · 05-09-2016, 12:20 PM

Looking at your screen shot you are already root so there is no reason to do the 'sudo bash' thing as that just gets you a root cli.
What I showed you was after a normal boot of the system.

What does the following command put out:

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echo $PATH

How about

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find / -name passwd

arun natarajan · 05-09-2016, 10:40 PM

[root@localhost ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
[root@localhost ~]#
[root@localhost ~]# find / -name passwd
/bin/passwd
/etc/passwd
/etc/pam.d/passwd
/root/asp/d2/d21/d22/passwd
/usr/bin/passwd
/selinux/class/passwd
/selinux/class/passwd/perms/passwd

lazydog · 05-10-2016, 08:04 AM

Hmmm,maybe selinux is causing you your issues. Look to see what current mode selinux is in with:

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sestatus

If it is set to permissive then you can ignore the following.

If it is set to enforcing try the following:

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setenforce 0

Then try to reset your password again.

After you are finished:

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setenforce 1

If SeLinux was causing you your problems setenforce 0 temporarily set it to permissive mode and you should get warnings only but you should be able to reset your password. setenforce 1 set SeLinux enforcing once again.

arun natarajan · 05-10-2016, 09:05 AM

It worked by changing SElinux value from 1 to 0,

Ty a lot.

lazydog · 05-10-2016, 09:23 AM

Great, glad this worked.