[LUNI] [Fwd: Forgot root password]

[Ed Jamison]

Of course, Lilo still has to be installed.  Try holding down shift while it
is booting, or hitting scroll lock.  This may/should bring up lilo.  If I
recall correctly anyway.  Then you can type linux single...

Ed Jamison
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-----Original Message-----
From: luni-admin at luni.org [mailto:luni-admin at luni.org]On Behalf Of
Robert Jacobsen
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 1:39 PM
To: luni at luni.org
Subject: Re: [LUNI] [Fwd: Forgot root password]


Stephen,

SuSE is the only OS installed on my machine. Because of this, I get no lilo
boot
prompt. The machine just boots automatically with SuSE.

RJ

Boulet Stephen-CSB046 wrote:

> Did you just try typing "linux single" at the lilo boot prompt without
worrying about a boot floppy? I wasn't aware you needed a boot floppy, but
that could vary from distribution to distribution.
>
> -- Stephen
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Jacobsen [mailto:rjacobsen at theocc.com]
> > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 8:56 AM
> > To: luni at luni.org
> > Subject: Re: [LUNI] [Fwd: Forgot root password]
> >
> >
> > Gerald,
> >
> > Yes, and that didn't work either.
> >
> > RJ
> >
> > Gerald Guglielmo wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >    I have some vague memory where systems were configured
> > so that only
> > > specific users could use the su command. Did you try the passwd at a
> > > console login instead of su?
> > >
> > > Robert Jacobsen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Gentlemen,
> > > >
> > > > I looked for a single user SuSE bootup, but the boot disk
> > that comes with
> > > > SuSE does not provide this option.
> > > >
> > > > So I tried an experiment and booted my machine in
> > failsafe mode. This
> > > > presented me with a terminal window that allowed me to use my old
> > > > "admin" password (wha..hey). I was then able to use the
> > passwd command
> > > > to modify my root password.
> > > >
> > > > Does this sound like a possible scenario? The su root
> > command and the
> > > > subsequent password request in a standard bash window was
> > not letting
> > > > me into root with password "admin", but it worked in
> > failsafe mode.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas? Do you think this is a Linux thing or a SuSE thing?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > Robert Jacobsen
> > > > rjacobsen at theocc.com
>
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