Subj : Re: password Problems
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Thu Jun 24 2004 09:44 am

Ryan Waye enlightened us with:
> when we came to the first logon prompt it rejected all of our
> attempts to log in, whether with root or with the other user name.
> We are pretty certain that we have at least one of the passwords
> correct, if not both.

Boot with "init=/bin/sh" added as an kernel option. Then mount your
root partition read/write with "mount / -o remount,rw" and use
'passwd' to change the root password. Be sure to remount your root
partition read-only before rebooting.

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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