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#1 2009-10-01 14:52:17
- Inc.ognitO
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root's password recovery
After update I have lost my password. I tried to recover, with getting additional command to kernel - init=/bin/bash, but after this my keyboard. does not working. any ideas about this?? Maybe I can recover password in another way?
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#2 2009-10-01 15:02:06
- brazzmonkey
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Re: root's password recovery
Boot from liveCD, chroot into your system and change your password.
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#3 2009-10-01 15:07:01
- brenix
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Re: root's password recovery
Go here for what brazzmonkey said. It's a knoppix guide, but your doing the same thing. Or you could run Kon Boot and bypass it 
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#4 2009-10-01 16:54:20
- Gen2ly
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Re: root's password recovery
chrooting isn't necessary but it will get the job done. If I do this I just erase the password from /etc/shadow. Load a livecd... or another linux install, start vim 'sudo vim /etc/shadow', then go to the root line and navigate to the first character after the colon, then type:
d/:/Hit enter and that will erase the password. Reboot, login to root from console, then change the password.
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#5 2009-10-01 16:57:01
- ozar
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Re: root's password recovery
You can't really "recover" your root password... but you can "reset" it.
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