Comments on: Linux reset forgotten root password

By: virus

virus — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:19:54 +0000

HOW TO CHANGE USERNAME ????????????????????

By: Baban Gaigole

Baban Gaigole — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:04:18 +0000

http://hashprompt.blogspot.com/2011/12/resetting-forgotten-passwords-on-linux.html

By: Eswaramoorthi.D

Eswaramoorthi.D — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:04:26 +0000

Thank you

By: georges

georges — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:16:29 +0000

did you try what nixcraft suggested, and what was the result?

By: georges

georges — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:14:59 +0000

you’ll need a live cd for that, and the process will be more complex.
try posting a thread in linuxquestions.org

By: Sreekanth

Sreekanth — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:51:12 +0000

For RHEL-6 do the following in single user mode.

By default SELinux enabled in RHEL-6 and it will not allow you to change the password.
Run the below commands to change the password for root.
#setenforce 0 (check the SELinux changed to Permissive using command “getenforce”)
then go for password reset
#passwd

By: mazhar

mazhar — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:28:29 +0000

Thank Q.
its help me a lot.

By: Sunag

Sunag — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:43:53 +0000

i have the latest natty newhal 11.01 ubuntu that just starts off no grub no loading… but i have stuck up with the root password trying to install the JRE platform…

By: Macdonald Rukwata

Macdonald Rukwata — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:02:59 +0000

thank you so much i managed to change the password

By: govindaraji

govindaraji — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 07:17:20 +0000

my linux user name & password forget password

By: brijesh

brijesh — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:54:00 +0000

Thanks Its working

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:37:00 +0000

You can likely just change root’s password using the normal way if you have sudo permissions: “sudo passwd root”. Setting root’s password initially is likely needed anyway under certain cases, such as when you need to ssh/sftp in as root during emergencies.

By: AVIRAL

AVIRAL — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:36:54 +0000

sir,
i want to know that if i forget the password of linux. so ho could it possible to work in linux

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:17:07 +0000

Note that :
1. Linux is case-sensitive.
2. “single” is a keyword.

So, you actually need to add ” s” or ” single”.
(lower case, and you need a space before it)

By: eman

eman — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:58:40 +0000

thanx it worked

By: mangesh

mangesh — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:08:50 +0000

now i am working with linux an i forget the linux server root password so i want solution on that so please help me about that

By: win

win — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:40:44 +0000

can’t to reset after booting still view “give root password for maintenance or control d” do you have other solution?

By: AJANRAMAN

AJANRAMAN — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:01:37 +0000

thank you very much……

By: Prabhu

Prabhu — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:34:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing the useful tips

Rgds
Vipro Computer Services

By: Ramgopal

Ramgopal — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:44:03 +0000

Hi vivek,
Normally in solaris, to reset the password.
boot cdrom -s
mount the root disk
edit the /etc/shadow
null the value
save and sync
umount
reboot.
How to reset the root password in solaris, when the disks are under Veritas.
when it is mirrored under Veritas VM, how do I do? ( consider 2 disks c1t0d0 and c1t1d0). thanks for your time.
-Regards
Ram