Changing Forgotten Root Password

[Thierry Vanden Broucke]

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 <kevin at scrye.com>

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:18:27 -0400
> binarynut at comcast.net 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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