Comments on: Linux reset forgotten root password

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

By: Suryakant

Suryakant — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:19:34 +0000

How to reset password if we forget password in linux?

By: midhu

midhu — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:58:11 +0000

thanku so much

By: Syed Mohammed

Syed Mohammed — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:32:30 +0000

Dear sir,

We are using server with linux o/s but the login and password has been misplaced so could you kindly help us geting our server started.

Your kind favour will be highly appreciated.

Thanks and kind regards.

Syed Mohammed

By: Maniraj Patri

Maniraj Patri — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:56:35 +0000

Will it work for fedora also. Anyway thanks.

By: George

George — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:57:58 +0000

I am using Fedora 11 I don’t get the screen with the kernel version come up and I can’t push e to boot to single user mode. What now?

By: Phuc

Phuc — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:02:01 +0000

Great help, thanks

By: manoj

manoj — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:06:15 +0000

How can i change the root password of another computer from this computer on network

By: Angel Genchev

Angel Genchev — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:51:03 +0000

sync is used to synchronize Disk with OS buffers, e.t. to write any dirty buffers to the disk.

By: S. Nilesh

S. Nilesh — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:36:45 +0000

what is the “sync” required for ? btw, I don’t think we have to do mounting if instead of S we append 1 to the end of kernel line… 1 is INIT single user mode.