Changing Forgotten Root Password

[Mickey]

Fedora 11, 12

Changing Forgotten Root Password.

Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the "x" 
in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and login as "root" and add new 
root password, does that still hold true for FC10, 11, 12

/etc/passwd

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:18 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
> Fedora 11, 12
>
> Changing Forgotten Root Password.
>
> Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the "x" 
> in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and login as "root" and add new 
> root password, does that still hold true for FC10, 11, 12
>
> /etc/passwd
>
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

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don't manually edit /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow at all

simply start in 'Single User Mode' and type 'passwd' - it will ask for a
new password for root user

Craig

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Craig White  wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:18 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Fedora 11, 12
> >
> > Changing Forgotten Root Password.
> >
> > Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the "x"
> > in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and login as "root" and add new
> > root password, does that still hold true for FC10, 11, 12
> >
> > /etc/passwd
> >
> > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>
> don't manually edit /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow at all
>
> simply start in 'Single User Mode' and type 'passwd' - it will ask for a
> new password for root user

If you have set up your boxes to require the root password to boot
into single-user mode, you have to net-boot (or cd-boot), mount the
root partition, chroot, blank out the root password (I prefer deleting
root's password in /etc/shadow to the "x" deletion described by the
OP), and run passwd.

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:18 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
> Fedora 11, 12
>
> Changing Forgotten Root Password.
>
> Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the "x" 
> in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and login as "root" and add new 
> root password, does that still hold true for FC10, 11, 12
>
> /etc/passwd
>
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

Even simpler: go into Single User mode and run 'passwd' to change the
root password. No editing of /etc/passwd required.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:18:27 -0400
[e-mail] wrote:
> Fedora 11, 12
>
> Changing Forgotten Root Password.
>
> Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the
> "x" in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and login as "root" and
> add new root password, does that still hold true for FC10, 11, 12
>
> /etc/passwd
>
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

This is a bad idea. That sets the password to nothing at all. You would
have a window there where anyone could login. ;(

Instead see:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reset_Forgotten_Root_Password

kevin

[thierry vandenbroucke]

1) Start (reboot) machine
2) Enter grub ( pressing the letter  'e' )
3) Go to the second line and edit the line ( pressing the letter 'e' )
4) Go to the the end of the line and insert the word ( single )
5) Press Enter
6) Press the letter 'b'
7) wait
8) #passwd root
9) Enter password for root
10) #reboot

2010/7/30 Kevin Fenzi
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:18:27 -0400
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > Fedora 11, 12
> >
> > Changing Forgotten Root Password.
> >
> > Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the
> > "x" in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and login as "root" and
> > add new root password, does that still hold true for FC10, 11, 12
> >
> > /etc/passwd
> >
> > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>
> This is a bad idea. That sets the password to nothing at all. You would
> have a window there where anyone could login. ;(
>
> Instead see:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reset_Forgotten_Root_Password
>
> kevin
>
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