passwords

[legio]

howdy all,
installed red-hat 7.2 last night. everything ok--or so it seemed. root password is no longer accepted. yep, i'm sure I have the right one.Help...

 

[Angry]

reboot;
At lilo prompt
linux -s or init=/bin/bash

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

If you have GRUB installed (default boot loader with 7.2) you select the normal 'linux' line on the menu screen and then press 'e' twice to go into edit mode. Just type (append) the word 'single' at the end of the command line, press 'enter', then press 'b' to do the actual boot in single user mode. You should end up with a root prompt (#) without signing in. To change the root password just do :

# passwd

and follow the prompt..

Then reboot with :

# /sbin/shutdown -r now
or
# init 6

Hope this helps

 

[legio]

great, thanks.