2009/8/24 Alex Ngatia <alex.ngatia@gmail.com>

@Motobaridi's solution, doesn't it mean that you can access any *nix machine that boots "normally" as long as you have physical access to it?

2009/8/24 Mr. Lawi <mail2lawi@gmail.com>

Motobaridi's option works all the time. Well, almost all. Had a
problem with a machine with pam authentication and the pam was broken.
Dependency problem ... it was not funny

On 8/24/09, George Njoroge <themburu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey go with motobaridi option, I always use it to recover/reset root passwd
> for my client servers (ie if I had forgotten them).
> Though smt else not mentioned here,u had said u even forgot ur username. Ok
> easy once in root you can just list home directory and u shall see the users
> ie ls /home/ . There you shall see the users. Reset all as you see fit. But
> as warned remember you are full root.
> Cram this trick as it will save and come in handy when you administer all
> servers.
> Cheerz
> Themburu
>
> 2009/8/24 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>
>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM, MotoBaridi <motobaridi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 1: Turn your computer on.
>>> 2. Press ESC at the grub prompt.
>>> 3. Press e for edit.
>>> 4. Highlight the line that begins kernel ........., press e
>>> 5. Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash
>>> 6. press enter, then press b to boot your system.
>>> 7. Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell.*
>>> *CAUTION: This is a FULL ROOT SHELL! You can damage your system if not
>>> careful!
>>> 8. Type in passwd <username>. Set your password.
>>> 9. Type in reboot.
>>> MOST IMPORTANTLY
>>> 10. Try not to forget your password again
>>
>>
>> So long, but more like what we have on *BSD.
>>
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