[linux-help] Re: forget root password

["adithya" <adithya111@xxxxxxxxx>]

hey,
This is my problem if redhat is like that when ever you forget the password
you can go to single mode and chainge it what the hell about security in
redhat any one can reboot the dam machine and chainge the dam passwd.
How can some one disable this option. In my openion if you forget the dam
password its better that you format and reinstall the os because we call it
a pasword cause you need to keep it in mind.
Thanks ,
Sudharsha.
-----Original Message-----
From: Abdul Basit <basit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, May 19, 2001 7:10 PM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: forget root password


>
>man just boot in single user mode
>by using 1 in lilo or loadlin
>lilo: linux 1
>and issue passwd to change your root password
>reboot and boot normal
>now you should have working root.
>
>redhat doesn't have special security over
>password in single user mode
>
>basit
>
>--
>Sex is better than Logic.
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>
>
>
>On Sat, 19 May 2001, j m wagle wrote:
>
>>
>> well, I tried to 'recover' my root password and I still cannot access
it..
>> I am running RedHat 6, i replaced :LS1...: with : : (then ::) and I still
get
>> "incorrect password".
>>
>> any ideas?  by the way,  the time stamp on my passwd (and passwd-) files
were set
>> during a time my daughter was "having trouble" playing a game on the
internet....
>>
>> it is a great life, if you don't weaken.
>>
>> mike wagle, wichita, ks
>>
>> Dale W Hodge wrote:
>>
>> > <snip>
>>
>> > Then reboot and use the passwd utility to set the root password.
>> >
>> > --dwh
>>
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